I tweet regularly. I “like” on Facebook. I post status updates on Facebook and LinkedIn. I reblog and post irregularly on my Tumblr site. Generally, I contribute short musings on whichever platform I’m on. I blog regularly for work, but until now, I haven’t blogged for myself.

Now, I’m joining the millions of bloggers, to write and participate, and in more than my 140-character quips and reblogs. I’m all for brevity. I’m a strong proponent of Twitter because it forces us to condence news, updates, info, and even humor or meaning into a short span of a mere 140-characters. But it’s also important to expand upon and revisit these fleeting ideas and try to make more sense out of them.

I don’t consider myself an artist of any kind, not a particularly good cook, a terrible singer, and a rather mediocre, though eager, dancer. One of the reasons I’ve avoided blogging is underlying competitiveness and insecurity. Anything I do, I want to be proud of and I haven’t felt like I’ve had anything to contribute that would be unique or worthwhile. While I still feel that, I also think it’s completely necessary to grow. It’s always easier (and by far more common) to be an anonymous, critical lurker than a participator.

It’s a year after my pseudo-quarterlife crisis where I had a near panic attack on the USC campus trying to envision myself going back to school and getting my MBA. I know that working with the amazingly talented group of individuals in the internet startup world is what I want to do, I just need to start synthesizing my thoughts more to figure out what’s next. (Okay, maybe I’m not completely past that uncertainty.) Most of all, I now realize that while what I say may not be new or particularly profound, sometimes relaying information and relating to others is what’s important.

So thanks for joining me. Try to forgive any typos, misused words or phrases, and grammatical errors, because there will be many. Corrections are always welcome ☺. This will be about learning, after all, and will likely be a bit bumpy to get into the habit and create something that I’m proud of and think is worthwhile. I won’t stop my random musings, either. I’ve always lived as if the now is for the next step, but now is the time to actually start climbing.

-KZ