-
Five Good Reasons to Blog (& 2 Bad Ones) – Brigid Slipka
A great explanation of why blogging matters. It isn’t about the simple obvious reasons. It is about deeply important issues like changing your behavior, pushing creativity and exploring your most important ideas.
-
ABOUT SEAN STANNARD-STOCKTON
Sean Stannard-Stockton is the president and chief investment officer of Ensemble Capital Management, located in Burlingame, CA, midway between San Francisco and Silicon Valley. From 2006 through 2012, Sean authored the Tactical Philanthropy blog and wrote regular philanthropy columns for both the Financial Times and the Chronicle of Philanthropy. In 2012, Sean officially ended the blog to focus on growing Ensemble Capital.
READ MORE »
One Comment
Thanks for the shout out. There’s many different styles of blogging out there, and for a while I was trying the “Kottke” style of just posting other stuff that was interesting, usually posting every day. But, like you, I’m now blogging less frequently but (hopefully) more in depth. Part of this is trying a new style, and part of this is perhaps what the field of philanthropy needs at the moment: less reiteration, more new exploration.
Reminds me of this article of the important of silence in contemplating new ideas: http://www.theamericanscholar.org/solitude-and-leadership/#hide
Are you ever in DC? Would be great to chat more in person. Hope you’ll let me know if you’re on this coast.