So a few weeks ago I volunteered to write some blog posts about taxonomy for the company website. It’s not like I lack opinions on the matter, so it should be easy, right? Wrong! Every time I think I have a good idea, I realize I have way more than should fit in a shortish (200-300 words), it’s got way too much detail (what can I say? I just don’t live at the overview of things level, I live down in the dirty details with god & the devil — yes, I know how many angels dance on the head of a pin), and then I start thinking I can’t really speak to the examples that I’m close to because they’re all “internal use only” for a specific company with tools developed in-house, even for sharepoint. Gah! I just find the “overview” level so high as to be virtually an unappliable abstraction. Clearly I need to “come to the surface” to breath every now & again. Still not sure how I’ll get to the mile high (much less ten mile) overview level…
I’ll wring something out eventually & feel better. Much like I always worried in school that the paper I just turned in was epic fail and it was usually returned with an A or B+ grade. It’s just getting through the process of getting something, nearly anything, written up. But until I do, it’s going to be a nagging irritation.
