Four Years Ago…

I got this crazy idea in my head:

I’m going to start blogging. About work. My work. HR.

So I posted. It wasn’t that captivating or interesting. So not knowing any better, I continued posting. Even when my content wasn’t great or I wasn’t feeling inspired, I posted. Through difficulties (both personally and professionally), I kept posting.

For nothing. Zero dollars and zero cents most days. Or, as close to nothing as possible.

The secret of blogging is a lot like the secret of basketball (namely that neither one is about blogging or basketball). The secret is the people I’ve met, the ideas we’ve generated and the things we’ve accomplished are more important than what I’ve published here.

So if you want my advice after four years of doing this, it would be to stop killing yourself over content. Click publish and then do what blogging is supposed to do for you: make connections, percolate ideas and make shit happen.

And don’t think for a second that I am the best at that either. If I have been unsatisfied with one thing, it is that I still spend too much time generating content rather than generating connections. Let’s fix that this year if we haven’t already.

For everyone else who reads and reminds me I’m not just talking to myself though, thanks. It means everything to me. Here’s to another year.