general weirdism

I think I'll be conscious of all my weirdisms for the foreseeable future, given the string of tags that TLC started a couple weeks ago.

I won't keep numbering them, because frankly that will just get embarrassing for me.

So, it just occurred to me that although I like the concept of tagging my blog posts, I can't bring myself to do it. This is because I don't like the "general" category. Or any category otherwise named that serves the same "everything that's not covered by my other pre-defined categories" purpose. If the blog were done, or involved a finite set of data or type of data, I could bring myself to categorize it. But since I feel like I would be endlessly re-shuffling categories and adding new ones, I can't be bothered.

For all this, I blame my good friend Mark Palmer. Mark taught me the concept of MECE. When making lists (such as lists of categories of blog posts), he aims to make the categories Mutually Exclusive and Collectively Exhaustive. I love this. It appeals to my 'rule following' self and the "J" part of my personality. I can imagine some people may not make the immediate jump to why this brings me angst with regard to creating categories for my blog.

Following MECE principles, the categories should also be specific - the "general' category is a total cop-out. It's not really a category at all. So if I were to categorize my blog, I would ALSO have to add potential recategorization of all posts every time I write something new.

Somehow, total anarchy with regard to the organization of my posts seems less stressful to even my longs-for-order self.

It still saddens me a little bit, though...because I think people who categorize their blog entries are better bloggers than I am. And I like being really good at stuff...so I'm a little disappointed in myself, but at least comfortable with why I won't be altering that little piece of my life anytime soon.