Ok, so here's my confession for you... I suffer from Publishing Reluctance.  I worry about putting my thoughts in a written format online for the world to see and for history to record.  When I first came to LPS, I immediately became aware of one of our premier bloggers, Karl Fisch and his fischbowl  (you know that now that I've linked here, he's going to come look [;-).  In reading through his posts, I decided I would send him an email with some thoughts.  He immediately responded and suggested that I desist from emailing him and post my comments on his blog.  I had intentionally not posted because I was a new administrator and I did not want to put myself out there too soon.  I was trying to learn about my new environment and was not yet comfortable commenting publicly on issues.

I wonder if others suffer from this same problem.  Is it generational and I've just grown up in an age when being published meant more than perhaps it means now?  Or is it wisdom to be conservative and thoughtful about what I put out there?  Often the difference between innovation and recklessness is slight... so where do you fall?

Would you describe your mindset as "Nothing ventured, nothing gained" or do you believe that there are "Old pilots and bold pilots, but there are no old, bold pilots" ?

As usual, anonymous posts are welcome [;-)