13th
A blog post about blogging
I think I should be blogging more, but I think in order to do that I need to have a focus, a topic, something that I should be blogging about.
Right now this blog is stuck between (or perhaps transitioning between) a personal blog about my life and a more public blog that I could point a potential employer toward. I’m leaning toward the public side, because “they” say that nowadays you should have a strong smart online presence to be attractive in the job market. So I might even start a new blog toward that end.
But I don’t know what to write about if I’m not writing about my life. I can still write about my life some, and just do it in a way that is more fit for public consumption. But you walk a fine line doing that, because you don’t want to end up pissing someone off or getting fired from your job or something.
What you are supposed to do is blog about your interest areas that align with the job that you want. But in order to write about those topics I feel like I would need to spend a lot more time reading and thinking about them. And it’s really sad to say that I don’t really have time for that right now. Which is not a great sign.
Maybe I just need to keep blogging more in the forefront of my mind and see what ideas/topics come up that seem blog-worthy… and then over time see where that leads me. I don’t know.
Does anyone have ideas for me? What are your favorite blogs and why?
I love Penelope Trunk (but she is NOT a good example of writing about your life in a way that you want potential employers to see, although she makes it work for her).
Dave Troy’s blog posts, although fairly infrequent, are usually thought provoking and insightful.
I also really enjoy Seth Godin and how pithy and wise and funny his blog posts are.
I like reading a lot of the VC blogs although I haven’t been much lately.
