Fifteen years ago today, I published my first blog post and I wanted to
mark the occasion with - you guessed it! - a blog post. I didn't really
have a strong sense of what I wanted to say but, anniversaries being a
chance to reminisce, I found myself revisiting what I've written over the
years.
It's definitely a mixed bag. The tone and content vary quite a bit. For
this reason, when people ask me what this blog is "about", I don't usually
have a ready answer, and this sometimes catches them off guard because
common wisdom states that blogs typically have themes. People will manage a
cooking blog, for example, or a programming blog, or a reading blog. Among
other things, it's a way to collect followers - people seem to place greater
trust in a blog when it focuses on one subject.
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