Why I finally chose to write a blog

Why write a blog in 2026? People don't read anymore, they just ask AI."

"Waste of time"

"You can't make money with blogs now

Those are some comments I see online about blogging in 2026. The thing is, I don't really care if anyone reads this. This blog is just for me. If someone happens to read it and gain something, so be it, but it's not the primary intent. I've been putting this off for too long (must be a few years now) because I'm a big procrastinator. I doubt myself more than anyone in the world. That thing you call Impostor syndrome, I feel it everyday. I applaud people who can post a video online with their face on it and give advice or be an expert on a topic, at least pretend to be. I think I'm not qualified enough to advice people on anything. If you're reading this, don't take anything I say as advice. Find your own path.

Waste of time? Well, it's not like I'm doing anything useful had I not been writing this. Maybe it's a waste of time for Spider-man to choose blogging over saving the world, but I'm just regular-man. Influencers have really changed how people spend their time. Everyone of them says you waste time if you don't use free time to build a business, read a book, go to the gym, etc... I used to believe them in my early twenties and I tried doing everything they say you should be doing. It wasn't until I decided to get rid of all social media that I realised I haven't made my own life decisions in a very long time. It was always an online personality or someone in my life telling me what I should do. I see people like robots now, kinda like the show Pluribus. They choose a place to eat because they saw it on TikTok, they go to another country for vacation because some influencer went there, they propose to their significant other at the same place. They're all chasing the same hot trend. I'm aware that trends are something that people have been following since the beginning of mankind, but not to this extreme. It's scary how someone can say the right words and change the way an entire globe thinks, like a real life Charles Xavier.

Can't make money? Let's see if I can keep this part short and sweet (I'll probably fail). I don't care about the money. If this blog made money, I'd be under pressure to write something, keep it up to a standard, or get approval from some sponsor to post on my own blog. I just want to write something, and leave it there for me to come back and reflect. Another reason is because I think creativity is dying. Modern internet (Post-AI) is all about recycled content from the past. Today's mission is to get AI to generate stuff that humans did on their own before AI. Everyone's wondering when AI can generate a movie like Star Wars with a simple prompt. What's the point of that? You already have Star Wars. I guess AI is the real life Charles Xavier I mentioned earlier because nearly every post online has the same tone and the same art.

The procrastinator and perfectionist combination can be very deadly. Not perfect? Procrastinate more. I've wanted to do this for a long time, but I always thought about what would the blog look like, and if I should have a better design with fancy animations, structure, and all that crap because that's what I do for a living. This is a big milestone for me cause I finally decided to use what's out there. I happened to find HTMLy just by googling for simple blog CMS or something, and it's just what I was looking for. It comes with a theme, a backend, and everything. I just need to write. I even removed the logo because I don't even want to think about that. I spend all day thinking about the right pixel sizes, the perfect colour combinations, the best flow for users, caching, security, load balancing, and all the other frontend and backend stuff at my workplace. I don't want to think about it here. "Hey, if you don't add images between text, people won't read it". Fine, don't read it then. It’s freeing to stop worrying about people who don’t worry about you. I wish more people felt that.