Another blog

Hello,

Aah so here we are. I think I have finally mustered the courage to start a blog. I had myraid of reasons to start a blog, and I have been planning to blog for the past few years, but I guess procrastination always managed to kick in. Voila! Here we are.

While I have taken the first step and commenced this journey, the real obstacle is maintaining consistency. I remember talking to a friend about the difficulties of starting something and investing consistent efforts. While he argued that starting is easy and maintaining consistency is difficult, to me, starting something new is difficult. Remember the fear you feel in the pit of your stomach before committing to something new? Feeling that maybe you are not ready yet or perhaps, in this case, fear of things like “nobody will read my blog.” That fear, I guess, just cripples you and makes taking the first step much more difficult. Don’t get me wrong being consistent is difficult too, but I feel it’s easier to create feedback-loops and be consistent.

I guess for the past few years, when I wanted to put my words in public, I have always ended up holding myself from not publishing anything, because I was always aiming for perfection. I was (and I still am) afraid that my writing is not good enough. I was anxious that my ideas are not original.

However, the time has come where taking a leap of faith and jumping into something new is the only way to get over this mounting fear.

What will I be writing about? I have some ideas in mind but for now, I want to focus on writing about some topics in theoretical Computer Science. I might venture into paper reviews or random musings on art or something I learned, but I intend to soon start a notebook for that. Mostly, I want to turn this space into some exploration of half-baked thoughts.

Till next time,

Usman