to “compete” with others.
There are great reasons to blog – but there are also lousy ones to do it.
If you’re writing because you’re trying to ‘keep up with the Joneses’, so to speak, you’re doing it wrong.
Don’t blog because others do. Don’t blog because others do it better. Blog because you want to. Blog because you have something to say. Blog to learn.
But don’t blog to compete. It’s a game you’ll never “win”.
Who in the world blogs to “compete”? And how does one “win?”
By “compete”, I’m more indicating trying to blog at the “level” of MMM (http://mrmoneymustache.com), Tynan (http://tynan.com), Challies (http://challies.com), or dozens, scores, and hundreds of others. Or trying to get an absurdly-high number of followers on Twitter.
Prolific bloggers can be an inspiration, but I’ve seen lots of people try to “be them” instead of just blogging about what interests or is important to themselves.