Blogs have been a huge part of my online and learning experience over the years. I still read an enormous amount via RSS feeds of my favourite blogs. Blogs might be "old fashioned", but I am an avid reader and fan of them. Blogs, are very much the pre-cursor to the current rising podcast trend. Most successfull bloggers have podcasts. What I love about RSS is that, it is like you have a direct line into the mind of some of the most intelligent, smart and interesting people out there. On a regular basis, you receive pieces of their their thought process, their insights, and the way their thinking on certain topics evolves over time.

If you think about it, few of us, will ever get the opportunity to pick the brains of the brightest and smartest out there, or to have a conversation with them. However, by subscribing to their blog via RSS or email or however you choose to follow a blog, you get a similar type of scenario, but extended and elaborated over time.

I cannot overstate the value of this in my life. That I have had the opportunity to, in a sense, be a fly on the wall to the ongoing through processes and outputs of some really smart people out there.

In that same light, I want to begin to try it for myself. To write repeatedly, and regularly and put the words and thoughts out there. One of the blogs I follow, AVC, is written on the daily by venture capitalist Fred Wilson. As I understand it, he sits down to write his daily post every morning before he gets started with his day. I am going to attempt to do the same. I am a big believer in habits and habit building and this is a habit I want to add to my daily process. Before I start my work for the day, I am going to write a post on a topic on my mind. This is the first.