![]() ![]() ![]() It’s this derogatory term that a lot of people wouldn’t want to say about themselves. Your identity is at the front and center of the column, and your credibility relies on your experience of having self-identified as a fuck up. That’s always nice to hear, and definitely a function of an advice column-it being a little bit more personal and a little bit more intimate means that it tends to provoke more personal, intimate responses. My measure of if I’m satisfied with the column tends to be when I get responses from people either emailing me or messaging me on Twitter saying, “This really helped me in an aspect of my life.” It’s not often that you feel like there are real people reading what you’re writing and that it has impact on their lives. ![]() The worst thing about blogging for a site where you also work is that you do end up having access to traffic numbers, and so you end up checking, which is a terrible habit to have. You can see traffic numbers on the backend. I’ll blog on occasion and there are very clear metrics about whether that’s done well or not. On Twitter success is quantitative-you post something and a lot of people like it. You have a substantial Twitter following and sometimes your presence on Twitter intersects with your advice column. ![]()
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