Another Blogger Down
After yesterday’s goodbye from Spolsky I’ve read today that Alex Payne (engineer at Twitter) also quits blogging for the time being. His rationale:
Lately, I’ve found the cathartic returns from blog-format writing to be diminishing. The ideas I’m trying to express never really get put to rest in my head when I write, now. Instead, they spark whole conversations that I never intended to start in the first place, conversations that leech precious time and energy while contributing precious little back.
Even-though the reasons for Payne are distinctly different from Spolsky, it might be the start of more people second thinking blogging and its (im)balance between input and desired result. Since I personally have no idea where this mostly Paste-stuff-blog is going, there is also no need to stop it just yet. Unless people start asking me to stop.
Why should people ask you to stop?