Nick Mamatas wrote quite a stirring post on the nature of greatness and writing:
We satsifice and market that as excellence, we don’t excel. Everyone does have the potential to be great, but that level of potential varies widely, and this variation is based on exogenous factors.
Upon reading it, many were inspired, but a few became a bit upset.
This got me thinking about what I thought of as meaning “great”, and how greatness relates to blogging.
Spontaneous ∂erivation 