A public compression of the mind

I created this website today and I thought I'd kick it off by sharing the rationale behind it.

Reasons to create a personal website in no particular order:

1. Intrinsic enjoyment: I often have nuanced, long-form thoughts I'd like to publish for the intrinsic enjoyment of doing so, but lack a suitable outlet. This serves as the ideal medium.
2. A personal repertoire of ideas: If at some point I'd like to create other forms of content, this may serve as a repertoire of ideas to pull from.
3. Public compression of the mind: This website will serve as an opportunity to publicly convey my thoughts, values, and ideas to a degree which would be impossible otherwise.
4. Serendipity / asymmetric upside: There are certain levers you can pull in the world which have a risk-to-reward that is attractively skewed in favor of reward. I believe that posting interesting thoughts and ideas on the internet, where they may be accessed by any of the billions of internet users, and consumed an infinite amount of times, is such a lever. There have been many instances in my life where I've leveraged the internet to distribute a project, and the right person, at the right time, happened to stumble upon it - leading to interesting outcomes that I could have never predicted.
5. High-leverage: Write once, distribute for an infinite amount of time to an infinite amount of people with effectively zero additional variable costs.
6. Snapshots of the mind over time: This gives me the ability to track my beliefs & values as they evolve over time. It will be cool to read back on my raw, unfiltered thoughts from 10 years prior.
7. Near-instant gratification: Most things I work on take a long time to produce meaningful impact. But there's something really nice about combining long-term, high-impact initiatives with quick, instant wins. I like the ability to have an idea, write up an essay, and publish it within 30 mins.
8. Improved writing ability: Language is the fundamental interface through which we communicate information & emotions to other humans, and I think any improvement in this skill will have a great ROI.
9. Improved thinking & clarity of beliefs: The act of writing gives the mind a powerful vehicle through which to toss & turn & refine ideas, to a degree of depth that is probably impossible by just thinking quietly to oneself. And if I turn this into a habit, I will have effectively carved out a chunk of time on a regular basis to think deep thoughts, and forge & refine ideas, that may lead to good things in time.
10. Resonant frequencies: By emitting my thoughts, values, and beliefs into the world, there's a chance others who resonate with them will be drawn in.