Over the past 4 years, I’ve sporadically focused on writing more researched articles on my blog. From pairing images and planning layouts, to counting words and fuming about sources.

In psychology, the Dunning-Kruger Effect is a cognitive bias where the less you know something, the more you over/underestimate your ability. Now normally, I would show you research or explain it further, but that’s not how a good blog works.

I’ve reached the point in my writing career where I’m looking back on my old works, and looking at them with new lenses of appreciation. And I’m now more able to enjoy the art of blogging.

It’s the personal experience. There are no links to external articles, heavy research, or carefully curated images. Just my story, in text, to you, and a healthy appreciation of addressing the audience. And I think I want to go back to that.

Maybe I’ll write something as short as a couple of paragraphs, or longer thousands words rant. I don’t know. But I definitely feel the urge to go back to just writing about what I’ve learned, to you.

On the Dunning-Kruger scale, there is one other time when a person will also over/underestimate their abilities, and that’s when their skill level has grown enough that they know how good or bad they are, and I feel like I’ve reached that second point.

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been deleting certain old posts as my understanding and standards grows. I trust myself a little more now that my compass in moral, logic, and knowledge is straighter, and I can go back to that lack of citation to provide good information through more personal stories.

So that’s what I’ll do, and that’s how to blog. Personal stories that people can relate to. I’ll start asking the old questions again, this time with another decade of experience.

Let’s see where this take us. Swing low.