---
title: "Blog like nobody's reading"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/5/20/blog-like-nobodys-reading.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/5/20/blog-like-nobodys-reading.html"
published: "2004-05-20T19:59:00"
updated: "2004-05-20T19:59:00"
tags: ["Blogging"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Darren likes to change his IM name when he's online to interesting sentences. Right now it is : “Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching” Heh. One might add, in…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# Blog like nobody's reading

By Roy Osherove May 20, 2004 In [Blogging](https://osherove.com/blog/category/blogging)

**Historical article** · Originally published May 20, 2004; technical details may be outdated.

[Darren](http://weblogs.asp.net/dneimke) likes to change his IM name when he's online to interesting sentences. Right now it is :

_“Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching”_

Heh. One might add, in the spirit of the times:

_“Blog like nobody's reading”._ Now **there's** a real challenge for you.

Back in the day (About a year ago?) when I just started blogging, I could write whatever I wanted. I _knew_ that my current boss would never read what I wrote and I _didn't even consider_ that someone might be googling me a few years from now. That led to a pretty interesting (and sometimes totally stupid and pointless) blogging experience. As time went by I find myself changing the way I approach writing this blog. I have a lot more dillemmas concerning what I can and cannot write. lots of self cencorship, not neccessarily technology wise.

I keep fighting the urge to write what I think people will want to read and just write what I want to. The last few posts were just like that. I wonder, a few decades from now, if blogging will truly be considered some sort of a communication revolution or simply a small spec of dust on the pages of comunication history. Will the dillemmas that are just now starting to haunt the blogsphere be remembered?

## More in Blogging

[All posts in Blogging](https://osherove.com/blog/category/blogging)

- May 21, 2004

    ### [Comment spam wave](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/5/21/comment-spam-wave.html)

- May 21, 2004

    ### [T- (11+30) + explanation + apology](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/5/21/t-1130-explanation-apology.html)

- May 20, 2004

    ### [My secret agenda](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/5/20/my-secret-agenda.html)

- May 20, 2004

    ### [Of software legends, myths and proportions](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/5/20/of-software-legends-myths-and-proportions.html)


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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

### Sites

- [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership.
- [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts.
- [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin.
- [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model.
- [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps.
- [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes).

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