Re: public intellectual

Certainly it is more likely that people will read it if I put it out
there. Actually this is not dissimilar to the topic we discussed on
the train -- it is infinitely cheap to "publish" these days, so what
incentive do I have to work with a "publisher"? ...

OK, there could be any number of incentives -- but this is something
else: public art, and the mindset that goes with it, exemplified.

Of course, I don't necessarily have to do it "live"; I could save my
emails and try to put them together later -- but that would be
associated with a very different mindset, and besides, given my track
record, it doesn't seem like something I'd be all that likely to do.

At this point, what's more interesting to me than whether people will
read it or not is to see if I can tell what it changes about the way I
interact. (The only reason it would change anything is the potential
for people to read it, and if they do, well, that will probably be
interesting.) The up-side is that people who are used to seeing only
one side of my interactions will have the option to see all sides --
at least, all sides that get routed through email. Which is a
surprisingly large number of them.