Another blog, Jeremy? Seriously?

I was going through my BCom notes the other day and realized there is a good amount of blogworthy stuff in my pile of stuff. I could have been BCom blogging throughout my entire degree, but I didn’t come up with the idea until now. Too bad.

But knowing me, I wouldn’t have done it anyway. That’s my problem. I come up with ideas and rarely follow through – because I soon come up with a bigger and better one.

I’m what Darren Rowse calls a “serial starter of new blogs.”

Jumping from One Random Thing to Another - this type of blogger is a serial starter of new blogs. They have an entrepreneurial spirit but find it difficult to stick at things and see them through to their potential. They’re easily distracted by the next ‘big thing’ and as a result don’t tend to fulfill their potential in the current things that they do.

My first blog was called “To Whom It May Concern.” I wrote random letters to random people and sometimes got a response. It was fun, but I was doing it for the wrong reasons.

Next I came up with my “Choose My Adventure” blog… Which is cool, and the only blog I have managed to stick with. But there was a time when I gave up, and I’m not going to let that happen again.

And I started another blog: un/popular web culture. It was about web culture and only lasted a few weeks.

Then I started a blog about writing. The only problem was that a lot of people gave me sass about the idea… and all of my “lessons” came from a book. So I gave up. Again.

The common thread for all of my failed blogs was that I was writing for me: I didn’t care what I was writing about. I wanted to be blog-famous. And that’s why I failed. No one wants to feed some kid’s ego.

I have learned an incredible amount about life and blogging in these last 10 months. The words “be” and “genuine” come to mind. I do not think I would be the same person I am today if I had not had all these experiences. And now I have a new rule when it comes to posting: replace the word “publish” with “create value?”, and only press if true.

This newest (and hopefully final) incarnation of jeremydavid.com is going to deliver value to you by presenting what I learn, what I explore, what I discover, and what I create through formal education and life’s experiences. A broad topic, yes, but one I know very well.

So without further ado, I’m going to write my first, errr second, post.