On January 1, I read LifeMathMoney's year review, which mentioned writing 50 blog posts in a year. It inspired my own challenge for 2020. Today I am finishing it.
You can find every article and its view count in this spreadsheet.
Fifty posts in a year sounds daunting. Breaking the goal into smaller parts made it manageable.
Fifty posts across 366 days works out to one every 7.3 days. Each took me about five to ten hours to research and write—roughly an hour a day on average.
If you waste less time on dopamine slurping activities, you'll have plenty of time for meaningful things that help you grow. Don't forget that writing is a superpower.
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I use my blog to explore topics in business, life, health and travel I find interesting and want to understand. Writing helps me organize my thoughts and understand a subject. That has been my main motivation.
For me, two things mattered most in finishing this challenge: discipline and obsession. I have worked on my discipline for years, and it helped me keep going. Of course, personality plays a role here.
My mailing list lost about 100 subscribers this year, and I am comfortable with that. I only want to reach people that are genuinely interested in the topics I write about.
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Next year, I plan to slow down and write one article a month. I write my drafts in public to encourage myself to publish earlier and add to them as I learn.
Some blogs that will come up next year:
- Digital scarcity (about Bitcoin)
- Understanding blood work (about blood markers)
- A carnivore diet is more vegan than a vegan diet (about veganism)
- What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger (about hormesis)
- The great meat debate (about meat)
- The art of happiness (about stoicism)
- Flexible housing explained (about living in Airbnb's)
- The added edge (about supplements)
- Prevention is better than treatment (about prevention)
- Cut the crap (about landing pages)
Some stats
I wrote about four topics:
The most-read articles are*:
- My favorite city (334 times)
- Silicon Bali (324)
- Stagnation equals decline (315)
- The introvert's loneliness dilemma (306)
- Society's housing propaganda (304)
The least-read articles are*:
- The art of doing nothing (110 times)
- The lazy conversationalist (121)
- You don’t need a website redesign (124)
- Reframing spammers (129)
- The relativity of valuation (133)
My personal favorites are:
- Dopamine and the path of least resistance
- Lies of mainstream nutrition advice
- Addition by subtraction
Please let me know which one you liked.
*View counts may be heavily influenced by publication date.