Writing More of Myself Into This Blog
I'm thinking about what belongs on this blog, and whether the value here is less about information and more about finding the person behind the site.
What should I blog about?
It is a question I have been asking myself today. Particularly, what is "on target" for this blog?
Today, that target feels more like the life and story of Kevin Dees and less like focusing the blog specifically on tech tips and tricks.
That means the subjects I cover may become broader. More about what I am doing, what I am thinking through, what I am experimenting with, and what I am learning as I go. Still technical for sure, but not only technical.
I'm not sure if that is something I want to document.
Sharing more of myself in public feels odd to me. I am not really someone who wants to write a memoir or turn my life into a reality TV show. I like writing useful things. I like documenting what I am learning. I like helping someone avoid a small technical headache if I can.
But as attention for the kinds of things I have traditionally written becomes more siloed inside AI companies, it makes me wonder how I am adding value to the people who still find my blog.
That value may be less about finding information.
It may be more about finding a person.
That does not mean I am walking away from technical writing. I still want to write about code, tools, systems, and the practical things I am working through. I still want this site to be useful to another developer who lands here from a search or a link.
But I also think there may be value in revealing more of the person behind the site.
The stories.
The experiences.
The experiments.
The faith.
The personal hot takes.
The little bits of texture that make a blog feel like it belongs to someone instead of something.
I have been thinking about this for a while, especially as AI changes what it means to publish useful information online. I wrote before about how AI changes what it means to blog, and I still think the human part matters.
Maybe it matters more now.
So, I'll take a stab at writing more of myself into this blog.
It might be something I walk back.
But it might also be something I run with for a while.