Here Goes Nothing
Exercise in vulnerability
I am a pretty poor writer and always have been. Mostly because I dislike writing and talk too much. I write in much the same manner as I talk or as scattered as my thoughts are. I don’t know that this is a bad thing, but I tend to get ahead of myself, my brain is three paragraphs ahead while I am still typing.
I do write though. Currently I am working on my business twitter and have two articles penned to my name. One is for our work homepage, Tax Withholdings and Estimated Payments for Business Owners. I thought it wasn’t very good but the creative team and editing team both were very happy with the roughest of rough drafts. The other blog also covered taxes.
Every few months I have an itch to write something more meaningful or to further some conversation. Inevitably life gets in the way. My fiancé and I are planning our wedding (only 193 days away at this point) which is a fulltime job, and we recently moved which was a second full time job. Couple that with coaching, studying for another designation and trying to spend 5ish hours a week in the gym and that is a very full life. I consider myself almost as lucky as Lou Gehrig and I didn’t even have to live in NYC.
I digress; I really like my “business” Twitter. It has taught me a lot and is responsible for not only my current job but some pretty amazing connections as well. That said I try to avoid politics, football, or mindless doom scrolling on there and it leaves me wanting another outlet. Instagram isn’t very intellectually stimulating, Twitter can have some amazing people on it but since Musk started running it into the ground, I am finding myself frustrated with the number of bots, porn stars, and political/AI slop.
I don’t really know what my goal is here other than to maybe brainstorm some longer form content and scratch that creative itch. There are several writers who I really admire on here. Kyla Scanlon is the best of what we have to offer in terms of economic and political commentary. I am pretty constantly amazed at how articulate and well thought out she is. Jared Dillan (I think I spelled that correctly) from We’re Gonna Get those Bastards is usually a pretty good read. I disagree with him a lot, I should. We have lived wildly different lives and most disagreement is due to a difference in lived experiences. Reading pieces written by smart people you disagree with is important.
A few ideas have captured too much of my attention recently, this will likely be a glimpse into whatever will eventually grace this blog, hopefully by getting them down on paper (desktop) I’ll find some more time to focus on them:
The erosion of trust in society and where that leaves us as a country
Why growing up I was told Grant was a butcher and Lee was hero
The rise of traditional values as a foil to Trumpism
Some of these may be opinions doubtless I’ll be able to find folks to disagree with either side of any of these ideas or to refute the idea itself.
I struggle with gratitude so I’ll end the inaugural post with this: I am going to wrap up here, go run 3-5 miles before practice, spend 90 minutes coaching 3rd grade lacrosse, then get to come home to my fiancé who will likely have some sort of dinner for me.
I am incredibly lucky