Blog posts as starting points

In my “Open sourcing a quiz maker” blog post, I frame my quiz maker as a step toward what could be something better: a script that you can use, but where I see a vision for something more robust and reliable.This got me thinking about how blog posts can, in many ways, be a starting point. A blog post can start a discussion, help build community around an idea, be a written representation of one’s foundational thinking on a topic, contribute an idea to the commons that needs further development, and more. 1 My "Moments of Joy" series started with one piece of writing and developed into both a series and a way I see the world.I like to use the “Brainstorming” preface in the titles of posts where I explicitly explore a new idea (i.e. in my “Brainstorming web guides” post, in which I documented my thinking at the time around short articles that help people use the web).But in many ways, every blog post is a starting point. Blog posts move me further in my thinking. I can draw on themes…