What's in a name anyway?

And why am I doing this to begin with?

I want to make my intentions clear: I’m not sure I have any. Or at least none of any consequence.

I’ve been told by many close to me that they enjoy my writing. They usually find it interesting and entertaining. I’ve also been told that as a software engineer I shouldn’t be very capable of that. I don’t know exactly how to receive a compliment that’s also suggesting I should be impaired at something.

I do write. A lot. For no one really. I’ve tried my hand at a couple of books and a couple of television shows. They’re ongoing projects spanning years now and I’m not sure any of them will ever evolve to the point of anything resembling a product to be consumed by the rest of the world, but there’s always that flicker of “maybe.” For the foreseeable future they’ll just be a very lonely hobby.

My ambition to write short self-contained posts here was inspired by someone new I met recently. I won’t divulge much about this person, as I’ve no doubt they’re oblivious to their role in all this, and I’ll reserve the right to be the one who perhaps chooses to share this with them someday, or perhaps not. To be completely hypocritical, the medium by which they drove this inspiration was their own publicly posted writing but I’m choosing to not show my hand. Their writing is smart, insightful, and quite frankly beautiful, but some of it is also deeply personal and my reading it may inflict awkwardness, despite it being public.

The name of this site came to me during a car ride home of no significance whatsoever. The combination of the two words made me chuckle and I ran with it. To my delight, AI search results of the term were comically dismissive:

“Intrepid apathy” is not a recognized clinical term but a contradictory pairing of words.

Intrepid means fearless and adventurous, while apathy is a lack of motivation, interest, and emotion. Therefore, “intrepid apathy” would describe a state of being both courageous and indifferent at the same time, which is inherently contradictory. It could be used figuratively to describe a state where one is willing to face challenges but without any internal drive or passion to do so.

Who knew I could describe myself so well on whim.

I hope you come back and I hope I’m able to entertain you.