I thought hard about what to make the tagline of my blog and the front page.  Something that would unify all content while still being useful to somebody who happens to stumble across this site (do people do this these days?).  It’s particularly hard because the way I see it now, it might just be a collection of random posts and artifacts.

I don’t want to make some stuff up. So for now, the blog is nothing particular. It’ll probably change as I begin to make some themes emerge here.

Finally, a blog.  And a first post.  It took a while.

I started this blog (and the corresponding front page, http://elevenseconds.com) for a couple of reasons.  For one, to make my thoughts known to my friends and strangers, to invite collaboration, discussion, to test my theories by exposing them to the discerning mind of the reader.  There are so many thoughts in my head, many recorded in text files on my computer, and it would be a waste if I never put them anywhere that required me to polish them up (and open them up for critique).

Next, throughout my life I had created plenty of content that I want to share with the world; I’ll be publishing it on this blog and on the front page and perhaps somebody will find some of it useful.  Anything that I author and publish on elevenseconds can be used freely by anybody.

Finally, I hope that having a blog and having to come up with posts regularly will incentivize me to think more.  Ultimately this can also help me think about my purpose in life, but we’re still a few posts away from making this possible…