Three posts I came across that I want to share with you.

Taking Blogging Seriously by Tom Critchlow

After some soul searching it’s clear to me, finally, why blogging is so important to me. It’s not because of the internet, or even because of writing. It’s because it’s a vehicle for creative expression.

There’s something deeper here - too much of adulting is designed to stamp out individual creative expression. And when we do finally carve out the time for some creative projects the world encourages us to keep it to ourselves. To journal in our bedroom, to paint in our basement, to hide away from others. Who taught us that creative joy should be a secret?

Rank and File by Robert Minto

It strikes me that the dangers of writing in relation to thinking have a common pattern: something devised to enhance one aspect of life can take on a cancerous energy of its own, rendering its original purpose no more than a parasitic appendage to its own hungering body. This is, of course, one of the archetypal dangers of technology in general. The human condition, the condition of the tool-using animal, is to be perpetually vulnerable to mistaking instruments for ends.

A loss of a quote is no big deal by Ratika Deshpande

I tried in vain to adopt some sort of note-taking system, failed, created a very overwhelming collection of online notes and documents that constantly weighed down my analog-loving mind, deleted it all, felt better, and found that I don’t need to rely on systems –I merely need to read what I like, and stuff that matters or which I love will stick and come back when relevant. And if it doesn’t– well, there is always more to learn. A loss of a quote is no big deal.