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I’m not denigrating anyone’s effort here, but the greatest trick behind blogging consistently is simply picking up the keyboard and starting to write. There’s no other secret sauce.

As you write more, you’ll find your own style and the set of methods that work for you. This is one thing I’ve learned from continuously putting out stuff[1] for the last six years.

LLMs can be helpful, but they aren’t a replacement for thought. Pretty, JS-infested sites are mostly a big time waster unless you’re writing about something interesting. The same goes for scripted processes. You write, read, edit, and hit publish. How many eyeballs your blog gets has little to do with how perfectly you nail your theme. More often than not, it’s a bit of luck and being authentic.

It took four years before my write-ups started hitting the front page here. That was never my intention. I wrote for myself, and some people eventually found it useful. I don’t follow any of these scripted processes and would rather focus on the topic than the process itself. Too much focus on the process and a little too little on the subject.

[1]: https://rednafi.com/