My lovely brother recently posted an article about how he’s concerned about how he spends his time blogging instead of more important things like papers, and how dangerous the obsessive stat tracking can be.

While I agree with him in many ways, such as blogging can take up time from other things, I also think it’s not as dangerously narcissistic as it could be.

I don’t write my blog to gloat about how awesome my ideas are, though they are awesome. I write it to express my ideas in a way that is tractable so it can be looked back on in the future. The title of the blog sort of reflects that, “This can change.” I don’t know everything. I never will. I just hope as I’m on this path of discovery I can help either A) other people out there already, or B) myself in the future.

Blogging, like anything, can easily get out of hand. If you notice you’re checking your states every few hours, that’s a little weird ;). Because I administer a far larger web page, I tend to check my google analytics daily as I check that page to determine trends in site usage. Really though, weekly is just as effective; especially considering it’s far more accurate over periods of time for determining trending as opposed to individual day by day or content tracking…

—Zach

I am currently doing a study with a group of friends from Church, but they meet on Thursday nights and I have an Easter Cantata practice on Thursday nights. So I figured I’ll post the notes online so they don’t go to waste :).

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—Zach