Who am I?
I’m Aaron Dinkledine, a Christian, a Covenanter, a Reformed Presbyterian, a Christian hedonist, an academic, an engineer, a minimalist, a world traveler, an eccentric, a reader, a writer, a musician, a chef, and occasionally an athlete.
This blog is not really meant to be a blog.
I do not want to take up regular blogging because I have this against blogs: they encourage shallow writing and thus shallow thinking. What is written today will be forgotten tomorrow. Because blog updates quickly become dated and pushed into the archives, the few excellent blog posts are soon buried under tripe. On a molecular scale, single atoms of content flowing across the pages of Facebook and Twitter take this to the extreme. The quantity of words may increase exponentially, but their mass is negligible. If I wanted to build hype, I would write a blog and use Twitter. But I don’t want hype. I want to build lasting, valuable ideas. I want to write like I am writing a book that will be read a thousand years from now. Writing of that quality deserves better than a dated blog post. So I am going to try an experiment. I will use pages instead of posts to publish weighty words of wisdom without an expiration date. For each new page, I will publish a blog post announcement, so that it will be evident there is new content, and then it will show up in the RSS feed.
In order to promote quality over quantity, I have established my Author’s Guidelines.
