I’ve found it really helpful. By far one of the best things I’ve done is starting writing. There’s a long history of journaling or having a diary. And you’re totally right. Being able to send someone a link to something wrote is immensely valuable.

You're one of my biggest inspirations for blogging

I quit writing a while ago, but resumed in 2025 after reading your excellent series of posts on AI topics

I hope I can keep learning to be able write with the clarity and depth that you do

There is also something to be said for having the writing there when someone wants to find out something about you. I get hardly any traffic on my blog, but it still has helped secure jobs because the right person was looking for info on me and liked what they read.

POSSE is the way.

I don't have a blog, but I POSSE by keeping stuff I write in Obsidian.

The internet is a circular loop of "engagement", the same crap comes up everywhere. People as recommendations for the same stuff, argue about the same things.

I got tired of rewriting the same thing from memory so now I have it pre-written (And sourced in some cases) in Obsidian. I can just copy-paste from there with minor modifications and updates and spend less energy in shooting down the most common misconceptions.

Might turn it into a blog later, but I've tried it a few times and I always end up bikeshedding about blog engines and themes and deployment :D

This feels like the perfect segway to POSSE my own blog, that I have recently started. I went through the same process when trying to chose a framework to write my blog, and I was never happy with the options. so...

https://g9h.io/write-your-own-static-site-generator.html

The whole point is to point back to something public, building links to increase it's Google Juice. I thought Obsidian was a private repository, thus there are no links, and all you're doing is feeding some future AI, for no private benefit.

It's unfortunate that POSSE is actively discouraged by platform algorithms. Posts with links get a fraction of the visibility.

Let your blog get indexed by Google and other search engines. Provide RSS and maybe even ActivityPub-integration and people WILL find it.

This. I've been doing mostly non-technical blogging since blogging was a thing, and this all tallies with my experience. And that last paragraph is key: "There's a lot to be said for writing for its own sake, too."

In short, when you are blogging you are actually writing for yourself. If other folks find it useful/interesting/amusing, that's gravy.

>Just writing about a topic forces you to double-check your understanding and do a little bit more research. It's a fantastic way of learning more about the world even if nobody else ever reads it.

This is such a wise and golden advice