"Just Hit Publish" Methodology

I don't know if you've noticed, but I've been posting some pretty quirky stuff. Or maybe you're way quirkier and my quirkiness is amateurish compared to yours (in which case you've made me a fan), but I regress.

The reason for the style of my posts is what I like to call the "just hit publish" methodology (all rights reserved :)). It goes something like...

First of all write a lot, and when you write something do not under any circumstance censor yourself. DON'T DO IT. Second of all (actually third), always publish. I haven't got a clue what I'm doing, so there's no way I'd be able to judge what I wrote myself. I need someone else to take a look at it.

Just hit publish...

If it sucks it sucks, if it's awesome it's awesome, and if it's mediocre I'll be deleting it.

I'd rather suck than be mediocre.

If I suck at something at least I might be getting somewhere. I'll learn something if I pay attention, then I'll think a bit, then suck some more, then think, pay attention, etc. But if I'm mediocre I'm probably just doing over and over something that isn't getting me any results. And worse, I might not be learning anything.

Back to the "just hit publish" methodology (all rights re...). I'm not doing this because I lack respect to whoever might stumble on this. I'm doing this because censoring yourself is limiting.

This is the so called "real" "me". This blog is about whatever idea I might have, and I'll be expressing it in the most straightforward way I can. Hopefully it will either be brilliant, or just plain suck. Kill me if it's mediocre.

So if I write something, and I think it's crap, I'll be hitting publish. I just might learn something. Note that there's a difference between crap and mediocre. Mediocre gives you the bored, blank stare of nothingness with a "it's alright" response. Crap, however, gives you the "hm, that's shit. But hey, it's kind of interesting" response.

Are you writing stuff without actually publishing it? Did you ever publish something you thought was crap but turned out to be pretty good?

Fucking "hello world"!

The question that bothers me the most is why did I add yet another blog to a crowded net? The reason is simple, and frankly, quite selfish. I want to write a lot, I want to do so anonymously, and most of all, I want to write crappy stuff, that is, without the pain of embarrassment that comes from writing painfully crappy stuff. My writing sucks, and if I ever plan to become somehow good at it, I have to write a lot of shitty stuff.

For my own amusement, and since lists are so popular on the net, here's one for you:

Top 6 reasons why I started my own blog

1. It provides an anonymous medium to write extremely shitty stuff.
2. Experimenting.
3. I want to become a master, black belt, enlightened writer.
4. Everyone else is doing it, so, for once, I decided to go with the crowd since the conformity created around non-conformity is quite annoying... sucks all the fun out of it.
5. Only through shittyness do I improve.
6. No embarrassment.

How's that for a list?

To continue...

I'll be writing about pretty much whatever jumps into my head and hopefully it's not so bad as to make you feel nasty in various places. If it does, you can poke me (crappystagename@gmail.com).

There's this long tradition in technical computer programming books to start with an example of how to force a poor machine into printing "hello world".
Strangely enough, this trend was generous enough to grace blogs; Not entirely unsurprising since the technology behind blogs was built by programmers.

So, fucking "hello world"!