A Humble Start To My Own Blog

Thu, 26 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT

I am writing this post to celebrate. My website is now live (‾◡◝). I coded some basic functionality, and the site now has a blog! I want to expand its functionalities and add more features, but it is taking some time. In the meantime, here is my first post:

A Humble Start To My Own Blog

A picture of a mountain in Kermanshah I took a few years ago and asked a good friend to edit.

This is my first blog post ever with content that I call my own. I always wanted to have my own blog in my own website. It took me a long time, So this post is special to me. Nowadays, fewer people start their own blog. Which makes sense, given most audiences don't care about the blogosphere anymore. I have talked to blog owners that felt like they were shouting into the void - maybe even something worse than a void. With AI chatbots rarely bringing traffic back to your websites, it seems like your main audience is most likely going to be AI crawlers going forward. I also have heard people debate if people even visit websites anymore, as everything has become condensed into walled gardens.

These are all okay with me. I still think it's a good idea to have a blog and write down about the things that matter to you, even if no one reads it. Here is why:

Why writing publicly helps you and the world

I think it is a good thing to think things through. The more you think and analyze something, the better. You grow with the problem. You start finding multiple perspectives. The more time you think about a question or an issue, the likelier it is that you have had to grow up as a person while thinking about that thing. You start to learn and grow and outgrow your old opinions. Your newest batch of opinions stop being just a simple sentence or two. They become an evolution and growth of thoughts. The fact that you have changed how you think about something means you have experienced more in life and have grown as a person. These are all good things.

In computer systems, software is written with a tool called git. It is used to save not only the current version of a program, but the whole evolution of it. In programming, git saves not only what the current version of the system (The Now), but how it has changed over time as well. Our minds work similarly too, if we train them. We can gain more nuanced opinions when we think and trace our line of thinking. When we trace the changes in our beliefs and tag them with how the outside world has changed to require that. This way we can be better debaters, better decision makers, and better thinkers. In debates and decision-making processes, we can argue our side better because we have been at some point on the other side of the debate. We know what the other side thinks and why exactly we needed to spend so much time to change our mindset.

Regardless of how long the evolutions of your thoughts have been, wouldn't it be a positive change in the world if you document it somewhere? Half as a diary, and half as a guide to all future people who will go through similar external circumstances as you with a similar mindset. The value of a personal diary for personal development is wellknown. Writing thoughts down helps us process things. Helps us make clear boundaries. So we learn to react better the next time similar events happen.

"If you’re thinking without writing, you only think you’re thinking." - Leslie Lamport

But thinking of a blog as a public type of diary helps us see another value that a private diary probably wouldn't bring.

I think life could be viewed as a series of roads with varying levels of amenities connected with multiple intersections. When we make a decision in life, we are choosing which road to take. Sometimes roads are dark and dangerous, and sometimes they are easy and pleasant. Sometimes we know what kind of road we are choosing in the next intersections that are coming and sometimes we only choose to run away from the roads we really don't want to take.

A public diary lights the road for all those who walk it after you. If the road is dark enough and treacherous, the chances of failure rise. If you made a mistake in a dark and dangerous road, that you didn't know enough about, or if you got chose wrong, or if you chose right and still got unlucky, its ok, its human to make mistakes and fail. If you analysed all the ways that dark road could lead to failure, and you somehow made it through without a scratch, then kudos to you. You made it! You can now help others who will be in the same situation as you. By documenting your journey, you are helping others to take more factors into account when making decisions.

Why a blog is probably a good way to write.

Before these things were called blogs, they were called books, or journals or essays. Their looks and format and content and publishing methods were all different. But they all had the same goal: to document your thoughts and experiences and share with the world. A blog is an evolution of that old solution to the problem of writing. I believe writing itself is a solution to unscallablility of talking to people one by one. Talking requires the time of two people, and that is not always possible. Talking requires someone asking asking good questions and the other having good answers. Talking, before podcasts, and distributed audios, could help one person or only a few people in a group. Writing, on the other hand, could scale.

A blog is a good way of writing. And we know writing in general is a good thing. But there are so many ways to start writing on the internet. You can make a twitter or a facebook page, you can write a blog on a substack or someone else's platform. So why should you choose a blog? I think it is because it is because it is very important to have control over your own content. You can choose what you write about, how you write it, and how you share it. You will not have to agree to other people's terms of service or use their platform. It is just you, you, your thoughts, and your reader.

I have started this blog after years of daily reading, note-taking, and cheering from a distance. I hope to share my thoughts and experiences with you too.

Thank you for reading.

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Amir Daniali

A Humble Start To My Own Blog

A Humble Start To My Own Blog

Why writing publicly helps you and the world

Why a blog is probably a good way to write.