Hit 1000 blog posts last month and nobody warned me about the burnout

I just crossed 1000 posts on my personal blog about vintage video game history. I thought hitting that number would feel like a huge victory but instead I just felt empty for three days straight. The milestone made me realize I'd been churning out content for the algorithm instead of writing stuff I actually cared about. My traffic went up 200 percent but my satisfaction with each post dropped to zero. I started deleting old posts that were just lazy listicles and I feel way better now. Has anyone else hit a big number and regretted what it took to get there?

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simonl1116d ago

Deleting those lazy listicles is the REAL victory, that's like finally cleaning out a closet full of junk food wrappers.

the_rowan16d ago

Read a study last week that said the average person wastes like 40 minutes a day on content they don't even care about. That's almost 250 hours a year staring at junk. Cleaning out those listicles probably saves more time than people realize, especially when you think about how many of them are just rehashed articles with a new number slapped on.