Starting afresh

No doubt some of you will be wondering, why has Nathan abandoned all his hard work and started a new blog? Basically, it was messy.

It was messy in the sense that the technical side of the blog was messy - I’d made a lot of customizations, and hadn’t really tidied them up, I hadn’t updated to the latest versions of wordpress, the links were all out of date - it was a bit of a mish mash, and just not fun to blog with anymore.

More importantly, the content of the blog was messy. It lacked direction. It started off as a personal journal that was meant to enable me to talk about things with the world, and hopefully help me and others grow. Back then I had a higher level of self-disclosure than I would now, which I wouldn’t be comfortable with now. Ironically, as time went on, there was a bit of a reaction to the earlier self-disclosure, which meant my blogging was quite closed, which almost became a bit dishonest? Not that I was lying or misleading, but it felt like I was presenting a Nathan that was one-sided, and didn’t feel like me. My blog had lost it’s direction, and felt imbalanced.

For this blog, I’m looking for the middle ground. I don’t want to go exposing my innermost secrets to the world, but I do want to be honest, and take ownership of what I write. So, when you read this blog, you aren’t going to learn any dark secrets about me. But hopefully what you learn about me will be accurate.