After Nine Years of Blogging, Here is the One Thing That Works Best

Today is my ninth blogging anniversary. On March 12, 2009 I published my first blog post using Blogger.com. You can find an archive of that post here.

In it I listed a collection of topics I planned to “blog” about. I threw out almost all of those ideas once I found out what really worked.

Like a lot of bloggers back then I just started writing things I thought were interesting and publishing them to the blog. I didn’t think much about who was reading and why they would read and share what I...