Elswehwere on the internet, a friend observed that his blog is “scattershot” and I think he wished his blog was more organized.

However, a scattershot blog is a perfectly reasonable kind of blog. I’m very, very old school when it comes to blogging. It’s a weblog – a log of things you saw on the web – and also an online diary, where you can publish any thought that you want to share with the world.

At some point in the 2010s I started hearing people saying that a blog post had to be a structured essay and I responded no no no no no. I mean, a blog can be comprised solely of structured essays but it can also be whatever you want it to be.