Ibrahim Diallo, with a wonderfully thoughtful essay titled ‘What I Crave from Blogs’:

When I click on a blog post these days, I’m not usually looking for the definitive encyclopedia entry or the slickest marketing brochure. Honestly? I’m hoping for something far simpler, yet increasingly rare. The sound of another human being figuring something out. I value both tutorials and personal experiences, but it seems like the latter is disappearing.

I want their experience. The messy, subjective, sometimes frustrating, often illuminating reality of them wrestling with a tool, an idea, a problem, or a passion. Tell me what it felt like. What surprised you? What pissed you off? What little trick saved your sanity? What opinion did you form that might be totally wrong, but is authentically yours? Give me the hot takes, the war stories, the “here’s why this mattered to me” anecdotes. Facts have their place, but it’s the human filter that makes them stick, that makes them mean something.

That’s very well said, and it echoes the sentiment in the piece I wrote earlier this month, ‘Why I keep writing in the AI era’:

People connect with other people in ways that AI can’t quite replicate. We want to know not just what the solution is, but how someone else approached the problem, what they tried that didn’t work, and what they learned along the way. There’s context and personality in human writing that gets lost when everything gets distilled down to the most efficient answer.