Blogging... Insight Gained on the Nature of this Beast

I now truly understand why a good blog must be a product of addiction and conflict. The irrationality to put aside important tasks to inscribe those thoughts in a posting before they are lost is something I intimately know now.

I often find myself to be possessed by thoughts that I know would make an interesting posting. The times that I have procrastinated writing because of other important things are the times that I regret the most. I regret procrastination of these gems because after sometime they lose some shine. They are the product of combinations of random thoughts and insights in my mind that may not be repeated. If I don't record them at that moment, most likely the excitement and insight is dulled.

I’m going to make an effort to most consistently record my thoughts.

Here is one of the thoughts that just came to my head while writing this: "Is compulsive blogging and the anxiety/addiction of it a characteristic of the middle class?"

I remember reading somewhere that in the middle-middle and upper middle classes, that there seemed to be one common characteristic: Anxiety.

Anxiety has many different manifestations.

Students at Berkeley and other elite institutions definitely fall under this category for the most part.

I wonder what type of anxiety that academics have. I remember an economics lecturer told me once that most "A" students don't go on to become business leaders or CEOs. Instead they go on to be more academic in their careers.

I wonder what the demographics are on most prominent bloggers.