I return to The Quantum Garden Website today without a clear idea of what I’m going to do with the site. Since early 2002 I’ve been blogging in one form or another. Probably longer if you consider buch@n which was started during 1999 when my wife and I were in London.
Blogging has brought contact with some wonderful people and greatly expanded my worldview. If I wasn’t writing myself I don’t believe that I would have connected so strongly. Blogging is a personal medium and I’m grateful to know there are people behind the words.
One of the questions I ask myself often is “for the sake of what?” which is a fancy way of saying “why?”. For what purpose do I blog? Originally it started as a way to share my thoughts, ideas and web resources on the topic of knowledge management. Following a redundancy from Andersen I was trying to start my own knowledge management business and blogging gave me a way to sharpen my thinking and a purpose to research. It was also part of my personal knowledge management strategy. When my focus changed to coaching the relevance of blogging about knowledge management faded and so I created this blog to help facilitate my learning (and again to share what I had learnt). buch@n too, had a singluar purpose—that of keeping my Australian family and friends up to date with my time in London.
Three blogs with three discrete and narrowly defined purposes. I think that’s the problem. I exist in much more than three dimensions.
I enjoy writing entries such as this. They are much more conversational and rambling. A deeper insight into who I am and what I really think. A greater freedom. The alternative is to write crafted entries with a distinct purpose and audience in mind. As I reflect I don’t think that’s the way blogs work. You may use blogging technology to help manage short articles but it’s not a blog. Crossing between the two is difficult and quickly results in nothing being written.
Perhaps this post itself is a declaration of how I plan to continue with Quantum Gardener even if I didn’t know it when I started. I’ve been here before and I know intuitively it’s the right way for me to proceed.