Absolutely. I meant no disrespect — you’ve surely done more than I in this space. I just recognize, however generally, how terrible those in our age group are at looking at everything objectively, no matter how intelligent or successful. You may have incredible blogging experience, but life experience colors all subjects. A lot of advice you gave, from promoting, to design, and even the defining of an audience, is what worked for you and how you like to run your blog, not blogging as a whole.

An example: some people (like myself) really really care about blog design — it’s why I enjoyed looking at yours! I also like plaintext design and other stuff, but my point is I care. Your audience might not, considering how you defined it, but another audience might! Another example is the newsletter: you & your audience might like one, but Daring Fireball doesn’t have one and I like that aspect of the that blog.

So again, with all due respect, even your own points are contradictory. You didn’t look at blogging objectively — only what worked for you. Which is fine! Thanks for the advice. And please ignore mine — I’m 21. But hopefully you get my point.