Is it worth blogging?

Perhaps breaking things down has been my strengths since I was a child. I electrocuted myself taking apart our vacuum cleaner, destroyed my toys to see what the inside is like and not being able to glue them back together. In Break It Down, I will explain how the business and technology around me works and how it is affecting my life. These will be my observations and a place for me to write what I see.

It seems like there is no good news in the world since December. Living in the 2020s, there is no shortage of news coming our way. Even if you try to shut yourself out of the news cycle, you will still hear the main stories from family, friends, and colleagues. It does not help that the headlines are about divide, uncertainty, danger, and violence. I have not been posting any content anywhere since I started my undergraduate studies on 2021. However, I have been consuming content more and more every year since. I was not posting because in all the noise that I was drowning in, it seemed like that my work and achievements did not add enough positive value. Now I am forced (by choice) to become a blogger and post on my professional social media.

I have always been great with verbal communication but writing in English sucks the soul out of me. With this new journey ahead at least for the next few months, I am feeling the same doubt again. Is it worth it to spend time doing something that is very hard for me (writing), when I also feel the result of it does not add meaningful value to the world around me?

Last May I finished my studies to obtain a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering. Perhaps what I enjoyed the most during my four years of working on that degree was being able to break down problems into chunks, communicate the objectives, and make sense of all the parts that had to work together to make the software or hardware work (Algorithms and Automata). Sometime through my journey, I developed a passion for business, operations, and the relationship between people. I now wanted to breakdown problems that didn’t require engineering hard skills, but social soft skills. Still writing software, I became a director at a national non-profit, started helping qualified investors with investing in early stage startups, and help entrepreneurs navigate starting, scaling, and sustaining a business. The common thread: braking down the problem, communicating the pieces, making it all work together.

To answer my questions…
Is it worth spending time writing? Perhaps. At the very least it is a place for me to record my thoughts.
Will I add value to the world around me? I think it is too soon to think about that, as long as I can add value to my own life by becoming a better communicator, I have added a net positive value.