Zen of Blogging

A nice piece of writing to connect to

Hunter Nuttall’s work is making the rounds. I thought his article on Zen and Blogging was such a nice read that I’m happy to do my part to get others to read it.

I liked his message that in some cases, you know what you know only after you know what you don’t know.

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The promo

Hunter’s story about an aspiring blogger teaches in a zen sort of way, and I found it entertaining. He says it is of interest to both those into zen and blogging:

• If you’re into Zen and you’re into blogging, read and share this ebook.
• If you’re into Zen but you’re not into blogging, share this ebook.
• If you’re not into Zen but you’re into blogging, read this ebook.
• If you’re not into Zen and you’re not into blogging, read it twice.

You can read the piece here: The Zen of Blogging

The rules of blogging

The aspiring blogger is taken through a number of different facets of blogging – blogging software, frequency of posts, length of posts, voice of the blogger, monetization of blogs, and so on.

In each instance, the “best” method is talked about, but then also a potentially imperfect method is brought up.

The point of the story (which I’m going to try to talk around to give you a better read when you get there;-) is to understand when you might want to follow conventional wisdom, and when you might want to do your own thing.

Rules and breaking of rules

The “rules” tell one how something should be done, and the breaking of rules is both against the rules, and part of the rules…

Let’s talk about Euchre.

One of the basic premises of most card games (including Euchre) is that the deal rotates. The advantage to the dealer in Euchre is significant, and everybody recognizes this.

For some reason, (at least in this area of New York) it’s ok to attempt to “steal the deal”, and the rules provide that if someone has dealt the cards correctly and turned over the top card of the kitty, the deal stands – even if someone other than the correct “next” dealer has done so.

If caught before the proverbial turning over of the card, the would-be deal stealer must stop and hand the cards over to the proper dealer.

So when one is playing the game, one must be aware of the potential for others to legally break the rules!-)

Well – they may try, but they ought to know what they’re doing when they do so…

And that’s Hunter’s point too!