Further, as you learn to express yourself in a genuine, authentic manner, readers will respond, and you will find yourself with an audience that has tuned in to your uniqueness.
Jeff Starr's view that readers will respond to bloggers who "learn to exppress [themselves] in a genuine, authentic manner..."
Everyone wants to read personal thoughts from real human beings, but no one writes them anymore. What we get instead is slop, and that’s hardly a good read. The moment I notice I’m reading autogenerated text, I care less. That’s why I keep writing. My personal blog is a weird mix of ramblings about reviewing code, the best programmers I know, and random thoughts. But you know what? People are reading it and from time to time I get an email from someone who found one of my articles helpful.
Making the case that now is the time to start a blog because there are many people out there who are looking for "personal thoughts from real human beings..."
Authenticity is in short supply and seems to be the only way forward, for so much of what we see is manufactured, tailored, and designed to show something that doesn’t exist. Imperfection is the mark of the human, the spelling mistakes, the last minute word addition because you misspoke on a video, it’s all more real because of this. We can strive to glorify the Creator with creation, and that will always be more enjoyable than the sterile veil over what could be authentic.
On authenticity and being human online.