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My 20 year old blog is private to myself. I have observed I keep having the same plans and ideas at different times. It has been very useful to pin those ideas down to a persistent plan or strategy.

I have also found it useful as I am an external thinker and over sharer. A day rarely passes that I don't send up a random thought to the blog, rather than it being an unnecessary whatsapp.

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The replies here seem to give away the change that has brought about the ruining of the web. I have a blog, if I have to do a bunch of research to figure something out, I will write it up and date it and put it on the blog. I may use it as my notes research later, if someone else finds it useful... added bonus... That is much the way the original web used to work, and search engines just helped you find that. They no longer help you find helpful people, only SEO optimized, or ad supported content. If you want to build a following, then you are part of the new web, if you want to contribute to a searchable index of knowledge freely, then you are part of the old... IMHO...

This is exactly why I started to blog 20 years ago. To remind myself how to do things and help those who stumbled across the posts. It was a way of saying thank you other people's posts who had helped me.

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