The most-read articles of 2017

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Despite what you might hear, there really isn’t a formula, or levers you can pull to magically create content that’s going to connect with readers. Writing really doesn’t work that way. Nor should it. Or at least, for me it shouldn’t. It’s actually a lot of fun for me to see what readers gravitate to on my blog, because very often they’re pieces I really enjoyed writing.

In 2017, I wrote a large number of articles I’m quite proud of. Not all of them were ones that found an audience, but many...