A Blog Post A Day

Okay, a blog post a day. Seth Godin told me to do it so I’ll do it.

I had to understand why to do it, or at least I came to a reason how it would benefit me. It will benefit me because writing is always a good thing to do. To write is to think. It’s thinking to yourself. It’s just you and the keyboard. And what comes out is just for you until you publish.

Always publish. Writing and not showing anyone is okay I guess. But it’s not scary. It’s showing people your work, which is scary. That is the point.

Mr. Seth Godin has written a blog post a day for I don’t know how long. Let’s say twenty years. I looked, and his first blog post was on January 15th, 2002. So for over 22 years Seth has been posting to his blog daily. That is a whole lot of thinking.

So here I am, day one. And I don’t know what to write about. But I do know I will never use AI to write a post. That totally misses the point. I see how using chat gpt to write these is wrong. It’s wrong because the point of writing a blog (this type of personal blog) is not just to create content. The reason to do this is for me. It’s only for me.

That is how I will continue this blog post. I will talk about the idea of what I call physiological egoism. The idea is that we can only do things for ourselves. It’s impossible. When we look, talk, walk, feel, act, everything, it’s all being driven by our brains. Think of all the most cliche givers in this world, Gandhi and Mother Teresa, when they gave, when they provided their love and wisdom, they were doing it for themselves. All of their acts were driven and motivated by their self-interests. They did it for themselves. Doing the most selfish acts possible. But… Here is where it gets good. Other people wanted them to do what they did. The world got tremendous benefits from what they did—their incredibly selfish acts. People wanted them to be selfish. Because their selfish actions benefited so many. What Mother Teresa wanted is what other people wanted.

I want to write these blog posts. And they are only for me. Blogs for my benefit. But there may be a chance other people would benefit from them as well. That’s the sweet spot.

Anything you do in life, be happy to do it all for yourself. Be incredibly selfish with your actions. And you will create magic if this physiological egoism, these purely selfish acts, are what other people want.

Do what you want and do what people want you to do. Do what you want, and people will say, “Please do more.”