I had a calendar reminder this morning that said “10 years of blogging”. I don’t remember setting that reminder for myself, but I went and checked and, sure enough, this blog was created 10 years ago.
A lot has happened since then. When this blog launched, I didn’t have an iPhone. In fact, I had a little blue Nokia flip phone that was cool because it had a camera. I had only been on Facebook a little over a year. I lived in Michigan and had just one kid (now I live in SC and have four). I had no idea I’d start a company and Praxis wasn’t even an idea yet. I’d never published a book or recorded a podcast (I did listen to EconTalk though! Downloaded episodes onto a little Mp3 player with no screen).
For the first several years, I posted here only occasionally, as my early blogging was done on third party sites like Students for a Free Economy, the Mackinac Center, The Western Standard, The Mises Institute, and the Prometheus Institute. Things didn’t really get going until TK Coleman challenged me to blog every day for 6 months. I did. And I haven’t stopped, except for a few experimental spans until the withdraw symptoms got too bad.
I’ve never made it a point to get traffic here. This is a place for me to organize my thoughts and structure my day. It’s a personal challenge and motivator. I’ve had a few posts that took off and got tens of thousands of views. It makes little sense to me why and which posts.
I pulled up a list of the higher traffic posts just for fun. Of the 1,123 posts over the last 10 years, here are the top 30. I don’t know if they’re any good.
Anyway, it’s been fun. Miles to go before I sleep!