Why this is happening

Here we go. Yet another blog on the web.

You might, rightfully, wonder: is that really necessary? What are you even going to talk about? Will you keep up with writing or are you going to stop after a post or two?

I have been trying to answer the questions above (and other, similar ones) for a while, and here are some of my reasons to have a blog and finally starting one after many years without one.

It’s a way to clarify my thinking

There are so many interconnected thoughts going through our brain every day. Taking the time to extract the ones I consider important fosters reflection and extracting general patterns I can apply in different areas of my life.

I can keep track of the lessons learned

Reflection is the first necessary step to improve, writing things down helps consolidating the newly acquired wisdom over time.

Teaching (i.e. sharing) is learning

When explaining something to someone else, it’s critical to communicate the concept in a simple yet effective way. In doing so, I make sure I really have a good understanding of the topic. Worst (best?) case scenario, I will realise I don’t know enough to share and I will go deeper into the matter at hand.

I miss writing!

It’s something I enjoyed doing in the past and I want to go back at it. As per January 2020, I have a new daily schedule, which might help making writing a blog (though not necessarily posting it) into a daily habit.

For these reasons and maybe others I haven’t fully realised yet, here you have it: yet another blog on the web! :)

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Maybe you are wondering why I chose Compound Interests as the name for this publication. When I was thinking about what I could write about, I listed the things I like to talk about with other people:

• Software development, engineering leadership and management
• Personal finance, budgeting, financial independence
• Life choices, self-improvement, personal growth
• Music, philosophy, mindfulness, and more

In my experience, these topics cover rather different areas of one’s life, yet they often overlap and enhance one another. For instance, you can use budgeting as a tool to improve your approach to time management or find parallels between software development and house renovations (e.g. theory of constraints).

The compound interest (also known as “[..] the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it; he who doesn’t, pays it.” — Albert Einstein, allegedly) is one of my favourite concepts ever and I figured, that’s how all of this comes into play: every time you learn something in one area, you can extract the higher level principles and apply them elsewhere.

So this shall be the goal of this blog: to compound knowledge and get better exponentially faster!