nanfinitum

I've been mulling over whether I should combine my personal website and my blog for some time now.

I currently treat my personal site as a lightweight “overview” page: who I am, what I work on, and a way to get in touch for opportunities. My blog, on the other hand, is where I explore ideas and interests that are mostly unrelated to my day job. I don’t really blog about my work; it’s more of an intellectual playground. For this reason, I keep the two separate.

However, I see the argument for keeping them together: It's good for branding, and can help someone get a complete picture of who you are when they land on the site... What does HN think?

For example, let's say I want to learn about Singapore: It's history, the history of it's leader (LKY), their education system and generally just what it's like to live there. Should I just start with Wikipedia? Sometimes I find the articles to have too many links and/or distracting details. I could supplement with Youtube videos or documentaries but there are too many of those and I can't watch all of them. I usually just go with the most popular, but I'm not sure this a good proxy for quality. The same goes for books: there's simply too many of them on any one given topic, and sometimes it is not clear which one is the most important/seminal.

I would love to hear the process/framework you follow when you're learning about a new topic of interest, and how you go from "curious" to "well informed"