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I've always wanted to write a blog but never dared to do it because I feel like I have nothing of interest to add to what already exists. Now after reading that
by cafeinux 4y ago
I've always wanted to write a blog but never dared to do it because I feel like I have nothing of interest to add to what already exists.
Now after reading that article, I feel like I could indeed start a blog, and there would be a good chance that it will be boring and/or low quality, at least at first, but it would be my content and I could be proud of it.
If I hold myself to a high standard that makes me want to only increase the quality of the blogosphere, I'll never write a single line, because inevitably the first thing you ever do in something new will be shitty.
So I think I'll start my blog, and I think it will be shitty, and I think I won't give a damn about SEO and what people might think about how I contribute to the blogosphere. I have a hundred TILs a week and a few ongoing projects, so I'll definitely have stuff to write. Thanks for that article.
- skydhash 4y agoJust stay away from analytics. I added it to my site, then I realized I was spending most of the time looking at the dashboard to see how well I'm doing. I disabled it, and now I consider my site as just a more public version of my notes systems.
- quietbritishjim 4y agoThat sounds great! Sorry I didn't mean to put off efforts like this (not that I have by the sound of it but you see what I mean). Maybe it's not the motivation for the blog but how it's distributed that can cause problems? If someone writes a half-arsed article about what they've recently learnt about C++ references, for example, then posts it to /r/cpp where everybody already knows that stuff better than they do - that is annoying.