Similar to other people in the comments, I blog for a few different reasons despite having maybe 100-200 actual visitors a month. If I learn something I found

Similar to other people in the comments, I blog for a few different reasons despite having maybe 100-200 actual visitors a month. If I learn something I found interesting, I try to think about its usefulness to others. If I think it could be even moderately useful, then I spend some time thinking about how I would write about that topic or idea. Having to even go through the process of translating it into something for others to read helps me clarify the idea. For example, if I wrote code to do something, why would anyone read about that? Maybe they've encountered the same problem and they dont know about this solution. Maybe their solution is more inefficient. Maybe its more cumbersome. Whatever the reason I need to think about this first. The next step after thinking about , why would anyone want this, is how do I explain it well? Is my explanation clear? Am I making too many assumptions? Am I forgetting things? It also helps me cement my understanding and highlight gaps in knowledge. Sometimes its also a rant about something I found particularly irksome. There are those as well. Lastly, I am not a native English speaker, so it helps me improve my vocabulary and it helps me think in English, which then spills over into my day to day life where communication at work and in society happens in English. All this means that I write, probably like most out there, for selfish reasons although probably not ego related. I care about an abstract reader from the point of view of understanding and grammar but not from any financial or self-promoting pov.