My Blogging AuguStory

I started blogging in the late 1990s on WordPress. It was a natural extension of a journaling habit I started in the early 1990s. Journaling helped me think. Blogging helped open my thinking for others. Early on, I was more interested in learning the technical aspects than writing. The thought of writing for others appeals to me. My writing habit began with journaling on paper. Thinking via writing, but I don’t edit my personal journal entries. Blogging forces me to consider sentence structure, readability, grammar, spelling, and style. I don’t remember the names of my early blogs, because after I figured out the technology, I lost interest. My blogging was inconsistent. After having blogs on WordPress and Ghost, by 2009 my blogging focused on content for my job. Educating clients, exploring new technology. I blogged as part of my job from 2009 to 2025. My last significant work blog post was a 21-part book called The BI Cantos . My retirement planning began in 2019. I didn’t feel…