Mediocre
You may have noticed that the quality of my blog entries has diminished. There are more typos and missed references. The structure of my entries has become less tight. Frequently I end blog posts abruptly without drawing conclusions from my arguments. Most of my arguments consist of haphazardly slapping down whatever thoughts are in my head and pretending that I am arguing something coherent.
This is a short entry to state that I am aware of this, and that I don't really care. As with everything else, I am not that interested in blogging. Sometimes I feel compelled to write something, and then I write it. Sometimes I want to think through a topic, and writing can help with that. Sometimes I waste a lot of time solving a non-easily-Googled problem, and then I feel like documenting the solution. But we all know that for the most part these entries make no positive difference to anything. There are hundreds of witty, well-written, deftly-argued blogs out there. I have little to contribute to the conversation, so for the most part I have given up trying.
As I have written before, this blog is a net negative in my life. I am aware that everything I write here is a strike against me in terms of hypothetical future employment. I am also aware of the fact that some (although not all) of my known readers are people who read because they are snooping. That's fair enough; I do not block anybody from reading this blog. But in the 27 years I have been blogging, I have not gotten a whole lot for my efforts. So to the extent I am trying at all anymore, I am not trying very hard.