Why blog about work?

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This blog is about my meditations on work and work related stuff. I think it would be a good idea to write about work as the writing will make me stop and think about the work, which i rarely do in the regular course of life. I tend to get caught up much in the day to day activities of my work to think about:
  • how well do i understand my field of work and what i am doing?
  • how can i get better at my work?
  • where do i want to get to in the long term?
  • where else can i explore options to work that would be more fulfilling?
So this blog will hopefully make me think about those things and also document all the thoughts at once place along with potential opportunities, contacts etc, which is always helpful. To put in other words, i am trying to understand or to establish a context and perspective for what i do as a 9 to 5 job and maybe get a feeling of how and where it is evolving. 

Apart from these things, what i am hoping from this blog is for some interesting 'To Do's' to come out, things/habits that i can pick up on a regular basis to be better at the job. Feeding this blog itself i will work into becoming a habit and to do it weekly, maybe on every Wednesday. 

So that is pretty much what i have in mind right now. Let's see how this turns out.  

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