I doubt they ripped me off or anything, as writing about a personal uniform isn’t particularly original as a topic.
Besides, they’re writing for a completely different audience than what I do here. I prefer writing and reading for personality, depth, comprehensiveness and community.
The relationship here I have with my audience — I feel, at least — is more focused and interested not in a daily churn of posts to feed the editorial beast to scale pageview numbers that appeal to advertisers, but to have some form of a dialogue and thoughtfulness on a significant majority of posts.
I don’t get paid to do this. I don’t ever feel like I’m posting just to fill an editorial quota of the day. I really love to do this. I care about the things I write for myself. I care about responding to every question and every e-mail. I care about producing something useful and educational that also forces me to keep learning and evolving.
So, when I set out to write something about a topic like adopting a personal uniform, I care enough to give it a lot of thought, to take the time to organize my thoughts and be as comprehensive as I can be in the final draft. I don’t want to waste someone’s time by spitting out a few grafs and calling it a day.
For me, it’s the difference between writing the equivalent of fast food or a home-cooked meal.
I look at it this way: I’m blessed to have the audience I do at this blog and I’d feel bad if I ever got into the trap of just posting to post. I try to make everything here useful or interesting in some way. The last thing I want is for someone to think to themselves after visiting my site is, “I’ve just completely wasted my time here.”
