You wrote an excellent post about important things. Few people look back, analyze, and reflect on what they’ve been through.

In nature, absolutely everything tends to move from order to chaos. So, no matter what topic you’ve promised yourself to write about, sooner or later you’ll want to stray from that path and try something else. I discovered Steemit in 2018. I published a few things, wrote some stuff over the course of a year. At one point, I realized that bots were controlling the profits. Back then, there was a very organized market — you could pay an x-amount to a bot, and it would return that sum in upvotes on a specific post. When I realized that most of the rewards were inflated in this way, I was very disappointed and gradually stopped maintaining my blog. Maybe it was wrong.

I came back exactly a year ago, in October 2024. I started trying to write something in the old blog I had abandoned. I’m very grateful to the Ukrainian community, who explained what needed to be done, how to write, and how everything worked in general, because there were new rules that had to be understood and strictly followed. I’m hinting at ChatGPT here. It’s a very useful tool, but one should avoid using it here.

Now I recall the nonsense I wrote about at the very beginning, a year ago. Topics that couldn’t possibly be interesting to anyone. Then I learned that you could write every day about how you spend your time during the day — this method is called The Diary Game. Over time, I realized that was nonsense too, and that no one was interested in it. Unless you’re a secret agent revealing all your cards in a blog — which is practically impossible.

Well, today I write about everything that interests me and that might be useful to the reader. But first and foremost, it has to interest me, otherwise nothing will work out. You can’t write about something against your own will. And I think this process can confidently be called personal evolution.

(There’s a joke: “If you don’t want to shit — don’t torture your ass.”)

By the way, the account I’m writing from was registered less than a year ago, and don’t let that confuse you, because I wanted to settle some issues with crypto taxation and had to start from scratch. But I admit, I never managed to do it because of the mind-blowing bureaucracy. But shhhhh about that :)