I’ve been wrestling for years with how to do this weblog. After too much internal debate, I sought input from mentors and decided that the best approach is to just get on with it. And here we go.
It was an important first step to identify what we wanted to get out of blogging. I’ve seen these efforts fail and always believed it was because the expectations were not clear. While these expectations are my own, my hope is that they’ll serve as a guidepost for our team as we build the next iteration of Simlogi in 2018.
Participate
What I want most of all from this is to participate. Howard Lindzon is one of my favorite reads in the financial markets space and he wrote a post called “Humility – a Life in Markets” and this line will forever stick with me.
“Sometimes you just have to participate because just doing that puts you ahead of 99 percent of the people.”
He is right.
One of the great benefits I think the world has been given with the rise of online engagement is the opportunity to participate. From organized meetups to e-commerce to the cryptocurrency exchanges to social movements, participation opportunities abound. There is no substitute for participation.
Process
Processing ideas through writing is powerful. A great mentor of mine first shared this truth with me when I was a new graduate. He convinced me to embark on a year of journaling and I’ve been doing it ever since. Some years less dilligently than others, but the importance of processing ideas through writing stuck. You can search the web for publishings upon publishings on this topic if you’d rather not take my word for it.
At Simlogi, our services are built on process and I’m looking forward to the parallel of processing ideas on our weblog.
Share
Lastly, it is both an exercise and a privilege to learn from people who are much smarter than me and who share ideas and quality content online. This is why I’m grateful for online engagement platforms. The exercise entails finding those individuals through building robust filters that result in quality content feeds. Sharing quality content across networks is powerful and something I’ve come to appreciate and not take for granted in a world that is full of noise. Tuning your own filter to identify the signals through the noise is what counts in this world of sharing.
My hope for this weblog is to participate in the processing of ideas and sharing of quality content. I expect to learn much through this endeavor over the next 10 months.
Cheers!