The thought which has continued to motivate me over the last year is what happens when there’s an adequate way to interrogate my blog with a conversational agents. There’s no good way to do it at present with consumer-facing services simply because it’s far too large for even a 200k context window. But 5.5k long form posts over 14 years will be an incredible resource at some point in the not too distant future. Even more so than a personal knowledge based using something like Roam, simply because the contents of a blog are more explicated than will consistently be the case for even the most rigorously elaborated knowledge base. It will lack breadth in comparison but I suspect that’s actually a positive thing when it comes to asking conceptual questions of the corpus.
At this stage I’ve largely given up on social media to devote myself to blogging, in part because it feels like I’m helping realise something I will be very glad about further down the line. This isn’t the only reason but I increasingly suspect that keeping a personal blog in the long-term as a knowledge worker will turn out to have been a very good decision, even if the collapse of the blogging era over the 2010s made it difficult not to occasionally wonder if you were wasting your time.
Mark Carrigan 