Why I am making this public

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I’m pretty sure that nobody in the entire internet reads this blog, and there is a long list of reasons, among many are:

• It’s bad written. My English is garbage
• It’s too personal. I’m talking about me most of the time, and as Dale Carnegie says in his popular book: people is not interested in others.
• Lacks of innovative content.
• Lacks of proper research.
• I don’t have in-depth knowledge of anything.
• We are exposed to too much information. Thus, we have to choose carefully what to read.

So, the natural thing to ask is…

Why on earth do I publish here?

I’ve said in my first post that the whole purpose of this blog is to improve my writing skills.

So, if I don’t care about anything else but writing, why bother making it public? I could write in a notebook, or store the content in Google Docs (which reminds me of this episode of The Office.)

The key thing is that I’ve found that publishing the content forces me to do two things:

• Actually write the content
• Make an extra effort to spell check and improve the quality of the content.

Where the system fails

While all the above is great, there is a key point missing: To improve, writing and publishing are not enough, I need feedback.

This realization came from a couple of books and articles that I’ve been reading on the topic of deliberate practice. Turns out that only practicing hard is not enough, you have to practice smart, and a key point is to have feedback.

Possible solutions

I have been digging around this problem and I’ve found a list of possible solutions:

• Pay somebody to do spell checking. The best option by far, the downside is that I’m not sure if I can afford to do it with all the articles.
• Publish the articles in forums. There are many forums of language learners.
• Revisit my articles over time and try to proofread myself.