It’s Only Obvious to You

Chris O'Donnell nails the experience of blogging:

I published a quick how-to […] Documenting it in the blog post took way longer than solving the problem. I threw up the blog post thinking one or two other people might find it interesting. Instead, I got dozens of emails thanking me for solving a problem that was apparently vexing to a lot of other people.

Been. Freaking. There.

1. You experience something.
2. It strikes you that you should write it down and share it.
3. You think, “Nah, it’s such a small, inconsequential thing. It’ll take longer to write about it than it did to do it!”
4. You do it anyway.
5. Turns out, tons of people find it useful.

Blogging is often just stating the obvious