Do you still blog?

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With the development of cloud computing and artificial intelligence, Web 3.0 has come quietly. There is no iconic event to announce that Web 2.0 has come to an end. It can be said that in the context of uneven development, Web 2.0 has been a long time It will not disappear, it is just no longer the protagonist of this era.

Since 2013, this blog has basically output something every year. It has been written like this for ten years. In the past two years, I have been more active on Twitter, and I have written very little long content. Do you still blog? I’ve been thinking about this too recently.

Ten years ago, when I first entered the workplace, building personal influence can be said to be the biggest motivation for blogging. Learning-sharing-communication-re-learning, following this pattern for many years has also allowed me to develop the habit of loving sharing. Most of the past expressions are utilitarian, hoping that the article will have more exposure and gain more influence; it is also vanity, hoping that more people will like and repost the article, and gain the approval of others. As the workplace gradually matures, the expression of utilitarianism and vanity gradually decreases—of course, it is impossible to completely eliminate—a lot of things are written for myself, and writing is regarded as a means of memory transfer .

In the stage of technical learning, I put forward a basic requirement for my writing, that is, to write things that search engines do not have. If search engines have them, then I will write the most comprehensive content, otherwise writing will not have much value. The Internet has never There is no shortage of repeated hydrology. Later, my ability to obtain information became stronger, and I found that almost all the questions were answered by the Internet, and the motivation to write continued to decline. In the past year or so, ChatGPT has been born, not to mention technical problems, even life problems, if you ask it a few words, it can clearly and clearly write the content very well, so the motivation for writing Another drop. Do you still blog?

In this information age dominated by short videos, the power of words seems to be getting weaker and weaker, but I always believe in the vitality of words. I uninstalled the short video software in 2019. Later, Weibo, WeChat, and Twitter made short videos one after another. Every time I clicked on it, it would take more than half an hour. I didn’t read it; around 2020, I uninstalled all social media software, and WeChat also turned off the message notification capability, and the usage time of the mobile phone was slowly reduced from 6+ hours a day to 1+ hours. The impact of this change must have positive value. I spent the extra time on reading and spending time with my family, and of course I did many other meaningless things.

Yes, a blog is a record. Record the changes in my psychology, the changes in my life, the experience of work, and the changes in my cognition of the world. If you can bring some new volume to the recording process, and get interesting or boring feedback, it is something to be thankful for.

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