I think for anybody in any field, if they write about the edge of what's happening in their field, [...] it really hones your thinking, because when you write something down and you do it all the time, there's this inner desire to not be intellectually inconsistent and so you hold yourself actually to understanding things. Going back to that word nuance, you really get into the nuance because you really want it to hold together once you put something down on paper and there are plenty of people outside of ourselves that have studied this writ large, but it's very well understood that writing is a great way to understand things to take it to a higher level.
— Bill Gurley, Stratechery interview about Gurley's book Runnin' Down a Dream
My Own Little Corner of the Internet
An internal initiative at work encouraging everyone to post on LinkedIn turned into me posting regularly, and some of those posts attracted quite a bit of attention and profile views. This made me realize that I didn’t really have a place where interested people could learn more about me. My LinkedIn profile was my most public page on the internet and I wanted somewhere else for people to go, something more under my control. Creating my “own little corner of the internet” has been a goal of mine for a long time, and this is what pushed me over the edge to finally do it.
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