Welcome to My Brain

This blog has been born at 4:31am on a Saturday.  It serves two functions: 1) as a way to keep me writing every morning to clear out the normal jumble of thoughts that builds up when I wake up and b) maybe to encourage discourse.  Maybe I say something of note or interest to someone and it leads to a conversation with new ideas.  At the very least, it should allow other people to see that someone else thinks like they do!

I’ve also been motivated by a quote from Seth Godin: “Everyone should blog, even if it’s not under their own name, every single day.  If you are in the public making predictions and noticing things, your life gets better.  Because you will find a discipline that can’t help but benefit you.  If you want to do it in a diary, that’s fine.  But the problem with diaries is because they’re private, you can start hiding.  In public, in this blog, there it is.  Six weeks ago you said this; 12 weeks ago you said that.  Are you able, every day, to say one thing that’s new that you’re willing to stand behind?  I think that’s just a huge, wonderful practice.”

Game on Seth!

The title was born from a fantasy dialogue I was having in my head (which happens often) where I presented an idea and the other voice said “that’s really out there” and I responded “welcome to my brain.” Those words lit up my imagination and within seconds I was searching available domains. I knew I had a name for a blog! http://www.welcometomybrain.com was available for $6,000 and directly below it was http://www.welcometomybrain.me which was not only $9.99 but made me half-chuckle at the “.me” ending and I knew it was a slam dunk.

So here we are. Maybe others will find it interesting if not for the topics discussed but at least for the fact they know someone else has the same thoughts or problems or issues or neuroticism. I read a ton so there’s always lots of information floating in my brain. By the way, if you’d read this far the title is not me forgetting to change default lorem ipsum — Ego eimi is Greek for “I am, I exist.” I’m celebrating the existing of a new idea.

I’ll get around to stylizing this place eventually. For now, it’s just about getting the words out.

-C

August 4, 2025

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