An Introduction
It’s 2026. According to the Gregorian calendar, it’s the start of a new year. With it comes a collective realization (mostly manufactured by the society we live in) that this is an opportunity for change.
For most people around the world (except maybe some tribes living far away from modern civilization, which honestly sounds great sometimes), it becomes a moment to start doing something new, stop doing some things, and double down on others in our individual lives. That could be as simple as waking up early, a bit harder like focusing on health, or something that costs money, like finally ticking off that travel bucket list.
I also see this as a mostly Western concept of making New Year’s resolutions, because it’s one of the few times of the year when people take a long enough break from their routines and enjoy holidays. That gives them time to think and reflect.
As strong as my will is to not follow the typical New Year’s resolution ritual, the momentum still helps. So I’m starting. Slow drum roll… writing a blog.
Why?
Well, the trigger is that many high achieving professionals in my industry have a blog to share their thoughts, teach new concepts, sell some courses, and use it as a tool to influence. As I aspire to be somebody like them someday, I’m starting this exercise of ‘Starting My Own Blog’.
I’m not quite sure if I’d be doing any of this consistently, but I believe that writing is important to improve the clarity of my own thoughts. And if I can expand my scope of influence, that would be good.
I’ve tried to do some of this on social platforms like Quora before. But social platforms rise and fall. People move from Twitter to Quora to LinkedIn to maybe Blind, and the audience moves with them.
The content can last, though. So what better way to create a small digital space of my own than a personal website where I can share things.
What?
This is something I’m still thinking about. I’ll definitely write some technical posts, like how to do “x”, understanding more about “y”, and thoughts around “z”. But my initial thought is that I don’t want to be rigid and make this a “tech only” blog right now.
Where?
I desperately tried to search for my (now believed to be) long lost “shankardaruga.blogspot.com”, a blog I had set up a long time ago where I wrote about interview experiences and the resolutions I made after failing them. I tried to restore its content on this new blog, but I couldn’t. Pardon my bookkeeping and redundancy skills.
Coming back to my point in Why about platforms and apps rising and falling: authentic, original content tends to outlive the platform it was posted on.
So, welcome to my little corner of the internet: shankardaruga.com.