In my blogging journey so far I've mostly tried to write as if I had the facts. For example, with my boundaries post (update: I deleted it) I attempted to create something along the lines of a definitive guide— where I'm sharing my final conclusions and treating them as true— rather than, for example, sharing my subjective experience of a bunch of stuff that really happened and what I'm concluding from it.
I wish I could write 'definitive guide'-quality content for the topics I find interesting, but I don't think I'm skilled enough for that. I keep trying to draft posts like this and failing. So maybe with my posts all I can do is offer my subjective experience, and let readers conclude what they will.
But what I can't do is ensure that any particular reader understands what I'm trying to convey. I can't write for everyone. I think I've been carrying a contradiction along these lines for a long time. (Ironically, this is just boundaries again: I can't make anyone understand me; that's not mine.)
There's a thing that's writing for the people who currently read my blog, and there's a thing that's writing for people who will become the future audience of my blog. And I think I've been neglecting the latter.
So I'm going to experiment with this for a while. I expect that my next posts are going to become a lot more like journaling, which I find exciting. And, hey, at least when I write like this it's a lot harder to be wrong:)
I've thought a bit about this. In theory, I prefer giving advice/reflections in the form of "I should do X", rather than "you should do X", even though it feels so natural and common to say advice as "You should do X"
Most advice is an example of people figuring things out for themselves, and we should be generalizing the methods and goals more than the conclusions