Why not?

"Why?" people ask. "Well, why not?" I ask back. I've been working on some very specific pages and when writing them and their introduction I felt like a reasonable criticism of the idea would be, Why do this? And why post it? My answer to which was, Well, why not. That's mostly my answer. Sure it's a bit more effort than just keeping my own private list of links. But effort is no bad thing. I like other people sharing their enthusiasms and I ought to reciprocate. Writing something with the intention of posting it online pushes me to a higher standard - to be clearer, to think deeper, to be as accurate as possible. These are all good things. Why did George Mallory want to climb Mount Everest? Because it's there. That didn't turn out so great for him. Stakes are a bit lower on a website or for a story or baking a cake. Often if I start trying to argue myself out of something that's the exact evidence of why I should do it. It's not good, I'm not qualified, why would the world need this…