This. I stopped trying to play the game of getting eyeballs because it would of meant writing crappy listicles instead of the things I actually wanted to write.

This. I stopped trying to play the game of getting eyeballs because it would of meant writing crappy listicles instead of the things I actually wanted to write. Instead I focus on building a repository of interesting ideas, projects and the occasional recipe. In this way the blog becomes more of a journal.