So how many people have I told of wanting to write down my thoughts more regularly and post them as an exercise to finish thoughts and ... well, keep my thoughts going?

Probably dozens. And usually I would finish my little spiel with a, "and now that I've told you, I'll feel obliged to follow through! It's accountability!" And yet, here I am, just now typing up/migrating evernotes / and mulling over things anew.

Looking back, I see how the events around me helped grow my understanding of how we as a community of creators (in any given industry) are getting it right, and are at times learning from our attempts to get it right. The internal debate about which it is (have we hit it on the nail this time, or have we learned something interesting when we really didn't) is growth in and of itself. I probably draw too broad a correlation between industry practices & my own budding take on the design process. But at least I know that's just what I tend to do... and so I might as well try & hone that.

That said, I haven't been really good about posting my thoughts... so the honing thing hasn't really happened yet.

Things I've tried:

Recording myself. A friend of mine in college would whip out his phone and record friends who he thought were making interesting comments. I wish I'd done that more. That said, as soon as I remember to, and in fact do whip out my phone, I start to ramble even more than usual. You think my tangents are hard to follow in conversation? You should hear me debating myself when walking along a street on my own.
Giving myself a deadline. Designers love deadlines, right? Because they force you to start, right? Wrong. If you set your own deadlines... you just push them out. Asana's little red tint to the date seemed daunting at first. And then I would move it out a month and boom! See how easy that got taken care of.
Keep tabs on the articles I've read. The intention was to jot down a few lines of thought after reading an article and posting them, and I think I ought to still do that. But a quick article grab between bouts of work means I already feel I've used up my "break time" by reading the article. I needed to give my thoughts proper time to form, my reaction needed to be a true line of thought that weaves through the article. To not give it that time seemed to doom my thought, and it felt disingenuous. A first reaction is great, sure. But ought my comment/review of the thing not be laced with something deeper? With links that tie to other related fields, with links to more credible sources to bolster my impression?

Things that deter me from writing posts:

Wanting to have references on file. As easy as it is to simply google a phrase and see if that article I read that one time pops up, it's still enough to halt my fingers pre-keystroke.
Has the moment passed? I feel truly half-way between those who gre up with the invitation to reflect, and ask questions in retrospect merely out of curiosity, and peers who believe in impulsively cull learnings from an experience and by osmosis internalize it. Just learn by doing, already! I have already taken in the knowledge gleaned from word or past act... it's been absorbed into the core of my being... right?