Purpose. It's that little flame.

Purpose from the Broadway musical Avenue Q.  Awesome.

When I first started out writing this blog, I wanted it to be a place where I talked about the happenings in my technical life.  A good start I think.  Sometime this past week, three years into blogging on and off, I noticed something about the blogs that I read.  I'm so dense.  They all provide information that help me in some way.  Whether its explaining how I use a specific technique to improve my career, an interesting idea, or a novel concept, they all exist to lend a hand.

I noticed that a lot of my posts are a bunch of rants on what projects I'm working on, my love-hate relationship with certain technologies, or my personal improvement progress.  Maybe it's time to put a spin on what I blog.  Maybe I should write posts about how activities on projects flick on the lightbulb or create guides for tools I'm using.  Even reviews of tools and books would be helpful.

Maybe I shouldn't care what others think about my blog because part of the reason for taking the time to write things down is to get my thoughts out of my head.  If I really cared about increasing my readership, there are a lot of other things I could do.  Tons of people reading my blog isn't my purpose.

Helping others improve is a noble purpose.  It will be that little flame.