Blogging can be fun for the reasons the author mentioned. I enjoy the research and the conveying of information to others. Sadly nowadays I often think of a to

Blogging can be fun for the reasons the author mentioned. I enjoy the research and the conveying of information to others. Sadly nowadays I often think of a topic and go reflect on "is this an attractive topic?". So I don't write just for fun anymore on any topic that I like - part of it is because of analytics. I can see which blogs get thousands of views per month and which get barely anything. These analytics for me kind of ruined just writing for fun. I know I probably should not care about those numbers, but I do. When you spent hours working on a blog and it gets 100 views in a month, it feels bad. Especially when a quickly crafted blog gets 10x that. :) I am consciously trying to just do it for the fun of it again. I'm also convinced that when I learn a new topic and proceed to write about it, my understanding deepens. That should be the real reward - the understanding. Sadly I also think that nowadays blogging is a way of 'branding' oneself, limiting what you can write about. You might not write a silly blog criticizing the latest star wars, when you know your professional network reads the blog. Blogging anonymously as was mentioned here on HN some weeks ago might be a solution to this. I'm rambling, good job on the first month!