Sharing Information Is Hard
Seriously hard. We consume a huge amount of information daily. I see metrics like 10,000 to 100,000 words a day being consumed by each of us. Some of that will be subjective, some of it objective. Some of it will be fiction, some will be fact. Some? Who knows. Political propaganda with elements of truth. Some of it will incite emotion and some of it will aid in falling to sleep.
If you blog, do podcasts or write whitepapers for reasons not tied to your employment or cold hard cash income, have you ever asked yourself why you do it? What makes you want to share?
In a society where something is declared fake news because two parties don’t agree and freedom of speech is becoming one way, is it worth it?
Why do I share?
If I need or want to learn something, I’ll go wide in the hunt for knowledge. Thanks to the ‘tinterweb, information is readily available. So much information is out there that we have the problem of validating what we read. Blogs have been a massive help to me over the years, especially when you read aligning and agreeing articles. The validation of “someone else Continue reading