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Why I Blog and How I Automate it (2023)
Why I Blog I’m interested in consuming information in order to create new information (one of my motivations for pursuing a Ph.D.). I generally read articles/papers or watch videos, and then create papers/articles/code and have discussions as a result. While creating blog posts could be considered ‘giving back’, I think most of the benefit is personal because it (if well-written) forces me to make sense of and distill the ideas therein sufficiently such that someone else can understand me, which requires confronting various weaknesses and problems with the idea and improving on them (This is also one reason why I believe [[#Blog Comment System|comment/feedback systems are important]]).
I maintain different sets of browser tabs for different research areas in both work and personal pursuits and organize these using tools such as the awesome BrainTool and sometimes Obsidian. I often spend far too many hours building or automating things that have perfectly reasonable alternatives, because I find it fun to understand and control every step of the process (and on some rare occasions it becomes objectively useful as well). I’d like to have a way to hide certain ‘personal comment’ lines within a blog post’s Markdown file that may contain helpful information for the author but not for readers (like links to other non-blog notes).
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