So I've been writing this blog almost daily for about a year now.  It has been interesting, time-consuming, thought-provoking, and sometimes cathartic. One of the interesting things about writing in this way, is that you're often forced to take more definitive positions on issues than you otherwise would be. It's not that I ever felt the need to choose an ideological "side", but I did feel the pressure to give my opinion on why I thought certain pieces of an issue were important and why others were not.  What I thought might work and what might not work - and why I thought so.

I began in April of last year with this post.  I had no idea what I'd write about at the time, but very quickly it became clear that politics and economics were my primary topics. I learned that I felt most comfortable writing about economics -  but I also learned that it's almost impossible to speak about anything of importance in economics without also addressing the political and public policy landscape. I learned about my new-found hatred of arrogant certainty and ignorant certainty.  I think I've always been the skeptical type, but I've become much more comfortable with the concept of doubt.  I've come to believe that doubt helps me get much closer to the truth than blind faith or some sort of faux confidence. And sometimes, doubt is actually the terminal point of an argument. And that's OK.  Doubt doesn't make the argument itself worthless, quite the contrary.

While I will continue to write here periodically, I will not be posting almost-daily as I have for the past year.  If you'd like to be notified when I do post something, you can enter your email and subscribe to this blog on the right-hand side of the page.  We'll see how it works out - who knows - maybe I'll be back posting daily after a few months of withdraw. Take care.