What have I been writing about?
My blog posts are driven by topics that occupy a considerable mindshare at the time of writing. And I enjoy writing about a variety of topics. In fact, while creating my first blog, when asked for an intro I had put in the following:
Catch a slice of my random ramblings — from Masala dosa to Management strategy; from Mahabharata to Marilyn monroe!
I do have my ‘Eureka moments’ which hit me out of the blue, and I hurriedly scribble down the notes as a draft post, to bottle the train of thoughts. They then shape up into an edited post, when I get back to the medium.
So, I was recently wondering about the range of topics I’ve blogged about in the recent past.. and, how do I flit amongst these? Are there periods of blogging on a single topic or is this purely random? Lets investigate.
A quick analysis of my blog posts
The blog posts I have on Medium, from the past couple of years totals to 137. I went about categorizing the posts with a primary tag. Though I was tempted to add a secondary and tertiary tag, for ease of analysis I resisted this.
Moving past 100 posts, I already ended up with 10+ categories. After some back-and-forth, I trimmed the categories by clubbing related ones. I finally managed to squeeze this into 5 tags, with a final ‘Others’ for all else:
- Travel, events (.. includes topical themes & experiences)
- Technology, data, design (.. includes analytics, social, mobile)
- Management, leadership (… includes strategy & organisational themes)
- Self-improvement, productivity
- Books, movies (.. includes the occasional art, games posts)
- Others
Looking at the above distribution, travel and technology posts account for 65% of my writing. While another 20% come from management and self-improvement themes. Now onto consistency of these themes over the months:
Clearly, I revived my blogging muscle with my solo backpacking trip, in early 2015. This continued for most of that year with posts around travel and other events. The other consistent theme over years has been technology, data and design, given this is my core area of work and passion.
Posts around management and leadership took a pause during most of 2016, to revive later. Thoughts around productivity and self-improvement, one of my favourites, has been recurring periodically which is understandable.
I seem to have limited posts around books, movies, which also happens to be another area of strong personal interest. Perhaps, experiences in this area needs more reflection.
This reflection did help clear up a few things. Following a similar pattern of review sometime next year may be useful to figure out what changes by then.
