Blogging for 4 Years

Created on September 28, 2023

2023   ·   writing

Four years ago, I published my first blog post. It was a simple proof that $C - C = [0, 1]$ where $C$ is the Cantor set. Since then I have published over a dozen posts about mostly mathematics and programming, but also the books I’ve read and economics. Blogging has been my most consistent1 side project or hobby in the past 4 years.

I started blogging because many of the AI researchers I looked up to had blogs. Blogging was a way to, dare I say, promote myself. Most of my early posts were related to the AI research I was doing while still an undergraduate. I switched from other themes to my current theme al-folio, designed for academics. I am not sure if this strategy ever worked. I still haven’t setup any analytics to track blog viewership. Very quickly, my blog topics diversified. Blogging became an excuse to learn things well, as I would need to write about them. Blogging is also a way to publish my thoughts and opinions, not just factual information. I continue to blog for these reasons, but most of all, I blog because I find it fun.

I encourage anyone reading to consider blogging.

  1. It’s fun.
  2. It can be as easy as you want. It’s a myth that blog posts need to be perfect works of art and science. Dispelling this myth, giving myself room for the subpar, had made blogging more enjoyable.
  3. It’s a good method to practice writing which is a critical skill for any white collar worker. Even if you are a software engineer, you will need to master writing.
  4. You have a unique perspective which others may benefit from.

As for me, I have tried posting once every 2 months, 6 times a year, for the past 4 years. The schedule has helped me be prolific at the cost of laborious nights finishing a piece I have lost interest in. Going forward, I don’t want to be attached to any schedule, to keep blogging from becoming a chore. I may not post for many months or even a year. This doesn’t mean I will eventually stop posting. I don’t plan on giving up blogging any time soon.

My Favorite Posts That I Wrote

  1. https://georgerpu.github.io/blog/2023/economic-possibilities-for-ourselves/
  2. https://georgerpu.github.io/blog/2022/federated-learning-beyond/
  3. https://georgerpu.github.io/blog/2020/crdt/
  4. https://georgerpu.github.io/blog/2021/floc/
  5. https://georgerpu.github.io/blog/2019/the-cantor-set-minus-itself/

My Favorite Blogs

Academics (Excluding AI)

Computer Scientists

Mathematicians

Other Scientists

Political Scientists

Artificial Intelligence

Companies/Groups

Individuals

Software Engineering

  1. The other contender would be weight lifting, but the pandemic and busy schedules and lethargy has frequently disrupted it. ↩



If you found this useful, please cite this as:

Pu, George (Sep 2023). Blogging for 4 Years. https://georgerpu.github.io.

or as a BibTeX entry:

@article{pu2023blogging-for-4-years,
  title   = {Blogging for 4 Years},
  author  = {Pu, George},
  year    = {2023},
  month   = {Sep},
  url     = {https://georgerpu.github.io/blog/2023/blogging-4-years/}
}


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