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.
Recent Posts
| Date | Keyword | Size | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 8 | pain | S | 3 Lessons From an Acute Back Trauma: Joint popping, muscle dominance, and the mind game |
| Mar 6 | personal | M | Travelling in Medical Style: The fascinating medical evacuation back to Vancouver |
| Feb 24 | personal | S | Stuck in Thailand! Send Help! |
| Feb 19 | massage | XS | What’s the harm? A new article about adverse effects in massage therapy |
| Feb 15 | medications | S | Muscle relaxants: still not very relaxing |
| Feb 11 | low back pain | M | Sad But True: Family doctors still ignore guidelines for low back pain |
