Why I blog

Faye asked me this on the bus to Everest base camp. I started writing and posting only a month or two ago, and it was because I found all these great pieces on Hacker News, and they were from peoples' personal blogs. and on some of those blogs (e.g. Simon Willison's), the authors made extremely compelling arguments about how terrific it is to have a personal blog. Now that I've done it for a month…