Partially inspired by this post at Rockinon, I’m going to go opinion-free for the rest of July.
I was working on a follow-up to the Gladwell post, and after several versions I really didn’t like what I was writing, nor did I like myself very much for writing it.
And what would blogging be without self-love?
If you aren’t falling in love with yourself via your own words, then you’re not blogging… ;)
Anyways, I’m going to give myself a couple of loopholes.
The first is that I have an opinion-oriented piece about London’s economic future that has been germinating for a couple of weeks. I might do something on that, allowing myself the exception by saying, “but I thought of it before July, so technically…”
The second loophole is that if anything crazy happens — like an election — I’m duty-bound to blog myself into a ranting fury.
And I’ll add a third: sometimes a little opinion is needed for framing and context, e.g., when you share a link it’s helpful to explain why you shared it, what you think of it, where it fits into your life and work, how you’d improve on it, etc.
I’ll be trying to keep that up, daily, at Open/Conceptual.
