BUSINESS Tue Jan 26th @ 10:00am
New study shows 328% of my time is spent updating existing content, 27% “shooing cat”
After a great surge of regular blogging these past few months, I’ve slowed down recently, and it’s going to stay that way for a while. This vexes me. On the one hand, I know that a good steady supply of posts is critical to earning and keeping an audience of appreciative readers (hey, everyone). I deeply respect and appreciate the writers I follow who post like clockwork.
And I have a different job than most writers on ye olde internets. My job is to produce really well-researched articles and information resources that evolve over time. I can’t post-and-forget. I have to post-and-integrate. Researchers at the University of Not Really demonstrated in a nonexistent study that my workload breaks down something like this, accurate to within five miles:
| 15% | researching and writing new content |
| 328% | upgrading, expanding, correcting, referencing, formatting, clarifying, integrating, existing content |
| 12% | answering emails asking me to repeat myself or diagnose something |
| 5% | making coffee |
| 27% | shooing the cat off my keyboard and correcting her typos |
I’m not sure if I got my math right there, but you get the picture. It’s that second one that keeps me from posting new content as like-clockwork as I’d like. The cat doesn’t help much either.
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|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 27 | glucosamine | Glucosamine flunks yet another test, this time for knee pain | |
| Jul 27 | cat | Backlit Cat Helper | |
| Jul 27 | low back pain | Can low back pain be treated with hope? | |
| Jul 16 | training | Some good news and bad news about stretching and strengthening | |
| Jul 16 | mind-body connections | The broader your smile and the deeper the creases around your eyes when you grin, the longer you are likely to live | |
| Jul 16 | ANTIDEPRESSANTS | Shrimp on Prozac | |
| Jul 14 | trigger points | More muscle knot squishing science | |
| Jul 14 | personal | The Beast of Bottomless Lake | |
| Jul 14 | achilles tendinitis | Word to the wise: preventing Achilles tendinitis | |
| Jul 10 | placebo | More mind-over-matter strangeness |