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People are different. You find working quietly freeing, I find working in dialog with others exhilarating. A straw man of your post is: “Blogging is irrational
by orzig 4y ago
People are different. You find working quietly freeing, I find working in dialog with others exhilarating.
A straw man of your post is: “Blogging is irrational for everybody”, for which there are many counter points in these comments.
But I actually agree with a moderated version: “Blogging isn’t worth the time for me and many others”. You don’t enjoy the process, you’re not looking for even local fame, and you have better things to do. Great introspection! A functional society needs all kinds.
- orzig 4y agoAs a counter-argument (yes, I’m the same person): I once spent 50 hours on a small website around some technical search terms with lackluster results. Two of the guides made it to Google’s front page, and I got about 100,000 hits across 4 years. Success, in a sense. I’d hoped to make a few dollars with an ebook or something, but couldn’t get conversions. Fine, I mentally recategorized my time investment as charity work (I’ve certainly benefited from others’ technical posts). But when a Wordpress upgrade broke the site, I just couldn’t justify the time to fix it, and the next 100,000 searchers won’t get an answer, which I feel bad about. It’s all small potatoes, but I wonder what we’re all missing when there is so little incentive (and some ongoing cost) to sharing knowledge.