The Case for Blogging in the Ruins (joanwestenberg.com)

2026/01/02 12:02PM

The shape of media shapes our available thoughts.

The format [of a blog] accommodates the actual texture of thinking, which is messy and recursive and full of wrong turns.

The format [of social media] actively punishes nuance, which means that a thoughtful caveat reads as weakness and any acknowledgment of uncertainty looks like waffling.

I want to think well. So I will write in my own space.