You can’t see this, but there’s a secret labeling system in these blogs.
Each blog has a handful of tags to describe it, so I can find articles on the same subjects later.
They also help me to understand what I like to write about most.
If you’re any good at HTML, you can probably still see them in the source code.
The most common tag used on the blog is “Life.” This tag is completely useless, but it is easy to use.
The next one is “Mindset,” and the third most popular is “Kaizen.” Motivation, Creativity, Change, Stoicism, Being Human, and Buddhism all make the top ten.
It’s usually well maintained, but when writing is an obstacle, the tag system is ignored in my haste to get something published.
Classification is useful. That all science — what all human knowledge — is. Different hierarchies of labels.
Labels are useful, yes; powerful, even. But they’re not necessary for creation; they mostly get in the way. They’re only useful post-creation, for people who like to know the labels that are in vogue.
So, don’t let one little label stop you from what might have been.