On This Blog as a Numbers Station

19 July, 2024

Over the last few years, I’ve started to see Random Notes not as a blog or even as a notebook, but as a numbers station. A tiny, semi-clandestine outpost on the web, transmitting to a small cadre of readers who get what I’m doing.

That outpost is nothing fancy. It’s nothing world changing. I’m not trying to make money from the words published here. It's just me sharing thoughts and ideas with no expectation of recompense. Or even engagement.

That goes against the ethos of many a blogger out there. The type of blogger who’s trying to build an online business with an avalanche SEO-laden content. A blogger scrambling to build an audience. A blogger trying to eke every pfennig they can out of what they publish. A blogger churning out post after post via some AI tool or another just to keep things going.

I don’t care about any of that. I’m more interested in sharing ideas with an admittedly small group of readers rather than catering to those folks just looking for a hot take on topic. Folks who drop in once and never come back.

I’d rather Random Notes be a numbers station, read intently by a few, than a bustling online property. That’s more satisfying on so many levels.

Scott Nesbitt