In no particular order.
- I really enjoy writing these daily posts. They’ve helped me find my writing voice again.
- Blogging keeps me sane, giving my thoughts a place to live that’s not locked inside my head.
- I’m okay with the small group of people that read my blog on a regular basis.
- That said, I get excited when a particular post gets four or five times the usual number of readers.
- Controversial posts always get more readers than thoughtful posts or critical thinking pieces. It’s annoying, but it’s a fact.
- I need to be better about replying to comments. My apologies if I approved your comment but haven’t replied to it.
- I take special delight in deleting contentious comments. I don’t owe you a platform for that.
- I wish more people I know were blogging instead of sending good posts to the algorithmic black hole of social networks.
- Blogging daily has lead me to being better informed of current events, and given me the vehicle to think critically about them.
- As nice as having readers is, I truly do this blogging thing for myself.
autotelic
ɔːtə(ʊ)ˈtɛlɪk
adjective / formal
(of an activity or a creative work) having an end or purpose in itself.
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Taught me a new word.
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It’s in my wife’s thesis. She’s smarter than me.
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We’re smart men, we married up.
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RE: #5. My favorite thing is when people leave negative comments about the posts they don’t like, but never leave positive comments about the ones they do.
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I may or may not still be a little salty over a particular post I spent some good time thinking about, and which I happen to think is good, only getting a handful of views, while another post, more reactionary in nature, got over 60 views. But, you know, moving on.
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