Seth Godin has some tremendously clarifying ideas on this subject. Step 1 is answering the question “What is this for?” If the point is to exercise a muscle, t

Seth Godin has some tremendously clarifying ideas on this subject. Step 1 is answering the question “What is this for?” If the point is to exercise a muscle, then show up and write week after week and don’t worry about if anyone is reading it, and how to grow...etc. That’s a distraction to what you set out to do. I have done something similar. To make this point clear to myself, I do not use any sort of tracking, so that I couldn’t figure out traffic numbers even if I wanted to. And I don’t advertise at all or put effort into growth, aside from dumping a url on LinkedIn. One really nice benefit of writing about technical stuff and lessons learned is that it’s a great resource for future you. Just yesterday I pulled up my own article because I forgot how to do something I used to know really well when I was in the weeds. If you take the time to write it up, you’re free to release it from your brain.