The Doc Searls Weblog : Tuesday, November 5, 2002
Cause your own effects
Got an email from a reader this morning � another polymath with a polyspecialized background, now sidetracked at midlife without any obvious career track. He wanted advice.
I wrote back: Start a blog.
I’ve been giving that advice for quite awhile now. A lot of people on the blogroll to the right are there because they took start-a-blog advice. This very blog was started at Dave’s insistence (advice wasn’t working, so he cranked it up a notch), back in October ’99.
Anyway, I was responding to this guy’s request by email when I decided to cut the last line and paste it over here. You can be the pinball or you can be the pinball machine. With a blog you can create your own machine.