Seth Godin published his 10,000th consecutive daily blog post on Tuesday. “That’s 25 years, once or twice a day.”
That makes me a piker by comparison. I have close to a year to go before I even hit 2,000. He writes every word, even though now that he’s SETH GODIN, he can afford to have some aide ghost-write it for him — but where’s the fun in that? And this way we know that it’s authentic SETH GODIN.
Reading some of his books, I realized he probably uses his blog posts as the first draft of some of his books, which are full of the same punchy little essays as his daily blog. I probably was unconsciously following his lead when I started collecting my posts around themes and into books, like See the World! which arrives shortly.
I suggest you click on the link to Seth’s 10,000th, which has a link to his 5,000th, which has several links to some of his other wise words. You’ll be down a rabbit hole in no time.
“My biggest surprise? That more people aren’t doing this,” he wrote in number 5,000. It’s true — blogging is a remarkably easy process, and you can do it for free on several platforms.
Blogging daily is a recent development for me. I just realized this year is the 20th anniversary of my first blog, which I christened “The Green Bay Free Radical.” I still think that’s a good name, even if I later found out that free radicals aren’t good for you.
My corporate employer objected to those early efforts — I think they believed “Warren Bluhm” was a brand that they owned by virtue of giving me a paycheck — so I went “underground” as B.W. Richardson (Richard was my dad’s name — see what I did there?) B.W. began to give me a voice — he was the one who first uttered the phrase “Refuse to be Afraid.”
It took me 15 years and a few iterations for me to try posting every day, which I have done since August. 1, 2020.
But this musing is meant to be about Seth Godin’s milestone, not mine. His is the grander achievement. If I continue on this daily path, my 10,000th post will come when I am 92, Lord willing. And he will probably keep going, too, closing in on 20,000 because he will be a boy of 85 then.
