Dear Reader,
Regrettably, I no longer care about keeping you happy. Not that I was ever out to maximize your satisfaction, but now I have decided that your satisfaction is, I am afraid, irrelevant to the decision of what this blog is about.
I noticed I have been spending too much time monitoring traffic stats and analyzing whether or not you might enjoy what I have to say. You are not, I am afraid, my customer. I have nothing to sell. The reason why I do this is not to make anonymous people happy but to find others with interests similar to mine, and to have conversations with them about those topics. I got into blogging without really examining the reasons why, but now I think I have a better understanding, and as a result, there will be some changes.
You will probably find more of my posts boring simply because I will no longer use that as an excuse not to post something. That's the bad news. The good news (I hope) is that there will be more original content. I will still point to interesting things with hope that it will spur a conversation either via comments or via email (and also because I just like to have a record of these things), but I want to do more creating compared to pointing. I have a lot of big questions to ask, and a lot of trivial things to get off my mind.
Although I am pledging to ignore your satisfaction with this blog, I want to know more about you. Who are you? Why are you reading this blog and how long have you been doing so? What things are you most interested in? I'd love to hear from you: justinwehr[at]gmail.com.
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Addendum: The benefits of blogging
