I have been back and forth with the idea of blogging for a long time now. I read other people’s blogs daily and I really enjoy them. Constantly I get ideas that I would like to see blogged about, especially from bloggers I currently read. Time and time again I have written down my ideas for blog posts, maybe even managed to get a few paragraphs typed out. Nothing ever came of them besides consuming disk space on my laptop. So here it is, I finally made my first blog post. What was different this time than the other times? 3 things come to mind when I ask myself that question.

The first and foremost is Brent Ozar and company. If you are not familiar with their work and you’re a data professional you should really check them out https://www.brentozar.com/. It is absolutely amazing and different than anything else you will read, and that is precisely why I can’t get enough of it. The style is unlike any other and keeps me coming back. Brent also keeps a personal blog outside of the company blog https://ozar.me/. Here he blogs about other related topics that are great. For instance one post about his office setup. This is the kind of thing that I love to see and don’t see enough of. Brent has been a huge inspiration behind how and what I want to blog about.

Second is Andy Leonard. I read his stuff regularly, and one day while I was again thinking about blogging I come across this post. How can I ignore that? He calls out most of the problems with blogging that have come to mind. After reading his post I felt challenged to finally write down my first post and get it out there to see where it goes.

Last but not least is my desire to teach and do things differently. While I enjoy reading others blog posts I wish there were more like Brent’s. Something different and on off, but related topics. I am not sure if anyone else wants more content like that but I sure do. So it is my goal to be different than other blogs of data professionals. I am not sure what will come of it at this point but I am glad to start the journey and share with everyone.