I'm replying to this because I think it's probably meant to be constructive, even though it feels a bit like an attack.

One thing to consider is that I've been writing for almost 20 years now. 40 year old me is a lot different than 20 year old me, so I can't write about the same stuff that I used to. I'm just not climbing radio towers and going out to clubs every night. And though my life is a lot better now than it was then, in many aspects it's less exciting. I'm sure that translates to some extent.

I think it's a little weird to be accused of name dropping because I feel like I go way out of the way not to do it. I've known Matt from WordPress for 10 years and this is probably the first time I've mentioned him (and not even by name), because I don't want to build my own reputation on top of anyone else's. When I was thinking about what blogging platform to move to I favored WordPress because I met Matt while I was building Sett and he was really supportive and gave good advice, whereas another major platform came in like vultures when we failed. Seems like a reasonable factor to me and I feel like I explained it in the post with the least possible name-dropping.

The blog isn't a place for me to stroke my ego. Believe me or not, but it just doesn't move the needle in that regard. Maybe I do have too big of an ego, but it's pretty much all self-generated and has nothing to do with posting. My life would be a lot easier if I didn't write this blog and the main reason I do it is to try to give back because my life is a lot better thanks to my readers. Think about how little I do to promote it or monetize it. Once it's not useful to people, I'll pack it up. I did a survey earlier this year because I was considering shutting it down and hundreds of people asked me not to.

I agree somewhat that the quality has dropped, honestly. I'm not as hungry as I used to be, and I have fewer topics that I'm bursting at the seams to write about. This is also complicated by the fact that these days some of the big factors in my life are my marriage, my family, and financial stuff and I have limited willingness to write about any of them.

Probably no point in defending myself against being called a narcissist because even a narcissist would argue that he isn't one.

All that said, I'm 100% open to ideas for stuff you'd like me to write about. I write a mix of stuff I just want to get out there and stuff people ask me about.

Tynan