I think part of what Mike Little showed with his comment on my blog that led to the creation of WordPress, is that it’s not about how many views you have, how many likes, trying to max all your stats… sometimes a single connection to another human is all that matters.
All it takes is a spark.
That’s what is beautiful about blogging. It’s too bad the advertising and social media platforms got us all caught up in status games for the past 15 years.
All you need is one view, one like, one comment, to change your life.
They say one is the loneliest number. Yet I find it better than being in bad company.
I’ve had that experience in the past, although, not remotely at the same scale, but something that made a big difference in my life. I got my first job opportunity because of my blog. I’ve even had someone reach out to me to acquire one of my open source projects because of my blog.
My company would’ve never survived past it’s initial infancy, and therefore never arrived on Automattic’s radar, if it hadn’t been for one random conversation that started between myself and Jeff, who ultimately became my CTO and co-founder.
He made one random comment on one random post out in the ether, and I liked and commented back. Then we started messaging and very quickly hit it off.
Fast forward more than five years later and I’m still shocked at how much we’ve been able to accomplish, almost all of it based around that initial shared affinity in one single thread.
Countless jobs, projects and people working and collaborating because of this spark! Thanks.
I left one silly little comment on a blog, and through that met my two partners. Built Modern Tribe and The Events Calendar for the last 16 years, worked with hundreds of team members, had a dozen adventures around the globe, and served incredible clients.
All because of one comment on one blog post.
This post along with “The Intrinsic Value of Blogging” (ma.tt/2014/01/intrinsic-blogging) have always been an inspiration for me to write a blog.
Yes! Love this.
Loved this post!
Twenty years later, still creating sparks.