Supply vs Demand
There is seemingly an infinite amount of content online. Every moment, more and more content is being created and published by vast amounts of people, each hoping to get attention of others.
In contract, there is an overwhelming majority of people who lurk (silently consume, while not producing). Is there more demand or supply?
Out of Style
Having a written web blog is seemingly out of style now. Most people consume social media posts, and short YouTube videos for content consumption. What makes me think a written and long form blog post on my own site would ever get eyeballs?
A counter-argument to this is that some of the people I have grown to respect over the last few months are ones who put out written long form posts on their own personal (non branded) blogs. I suppose these are the ones who are "building their reputations".
Pros & Cons Analysis
Pros
- Potential to get into contact with people who have interesting new perspectives and schemes
- Building a data log of my life that can be referenced by family, my future self, AI agents
- Develop writing and communication skills
- Improve typing skills
- Something interesting and distinguishing for my resume
Cons
- Writing is time consuming
Maybe helpful with voice to text -> AI to summarize and make concise and well planned out
- I might be writing something that nobody will every read or find
It might be interesting to put out a variety and see what hits and what doesn't hit. We can _make_ perfect metrics (tracking)