{"id":2112,"date":"2004-03-25T21:10:44","date_gmt":"2004-03-25T21:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/?p=2112"},"modified":"2004-03-25T21:10:44","modified_gmt":"2004-03-25T21:10:44","slug":"screw-it-im-posting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/screw-it-im-posting\/","title":{"rendered":"Screw it, I&#8217;m posting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So for a while now I&#8217;ve been resisting the urge to post things that haven&#8217;t been <em>fully<\/em> polished. I have my <a href=\"http:\/\/ryskamp.org\/brain\/psst\/\">linkblog<\/a>, suitable for things I like but don&#8217;t need to publish thoughts on, and I have this site, where I pontificate on matters esoteric and developed enough to demand publishing.<\/p>\n<p>Somehow I thought this would separate me from everyone else out there blogging about their cats and their kids and their jobs. No one wants to be <em>that guy<\/em>. If I was going to build a truly useful &#8220;backup brain&#8221;, I had to filter the content somehow, right? Otherwise, it would just end up muddled, incoherent, and confused, like my regular brain is.<\/p>\n<p>But over the past month or so, I&#8217;ve been commenting more on my Psst! posts, and wanting to post smaller items on the Brain blog. When I do end up posting here, it becomes something mammoth and unweildy, where I try to cram so many of my thoughts into one summarial entry that even I lose track of what I am saying.<\/p>\n<p>Screw it. It shouldn&#8217;t be this hard. Let someone else figure out what&#8217;s &#8220;important enough&#8221;. I&#8217;m <em>that guy<\/em> now. Prepare for the big blab&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So for a while now I&#8217;ve been resisting the urge to post things that haven&#8217;t been fully polished. I have my linkblog, suitable for things I like but don&#8217;t need to publish thoughts on, and I have this site, where I pontificate on matters esoteric and developed enough to demand publishing. Somehow I thought this&#8230;<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/screw-it-im-posting\/\">more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[264],"class_list":["post-2112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ryskampdotorg","tag-blogging-hard-difficult"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wjHJ-y4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}