Earlier this month, I declared I was going to write on Twitter every day as @skepticalstoic. Fortunately, the end of this month coincided with Stoic Week, and it was great to be part of the #stoicweek dialogue.
At the end of this month, it's necessary to ask: did the daily writings help? I'd say it helped somewhat. Regurgitating Stoic ideas on Twitter is a pretty reasonable way to keep thinking about Stoicism. The issue was that most of my thinking about Stoicism came at the end of the day, because no posts would come to mind during the day itself. At the end of the day, I was often tired and not very motivated to write something on Twitter. Often, not much came to mind as I sat down for my daily posting. Overall, I felt this practice was a bit of nuisance, and I'm not sure the benefits made up for it.
During Stoic Week, I combined my mental review of the day with the Stoic post, and reviewed my day with an eye to finding a pertinent Twitter post I can write. That proved to be more effective than just the Twitter journaling alone, and it gets closer to what the Stoic journals should be.
Going forward, I don't think I'll attempt to post every day. But a mental daily review seems like good practice, and if it brings to mind something worth writing, then I'll go ahead and post it. It may also be a good idea to specific try to write about areas I am having trouble with, so as to reinforce good thinking. I did make some posts about things I was having problems with, but I wasn't focused on doing so.
Predicting the future, even of my actions, is hard. I'm not going to promise to write at any frequency. But I hope my natural laziness doesn't take over, and that I continue to post at least somewhat regularly. I only have 33 followers at the moment. But that's ok, I'm really posting for myself.
