A Way Overdue Blog

When I started this blog back in 2018, I could not stop writing. I had loved writing since my primary school days and always got the coveted gold stars pasted on my English compositions by teachers. Circa 2018-2022, I had all the time in the world to do what I loved the most and boy, did I do it.

Writing allowed me to express myself and share many of the thoughts that regularly resided in my head.

In mid-2022, I got a job as a tech reporter for the leading technology publication in Africa. Basically, my job was to do the two things I loved the most- learning about technology and writing- the perfect combo. Plus, the role was remote, and I was covering Southern Africa tech for a publication which was predominantly West African, so I was pretty much my own boss. Most of those two and a half years were super fulfilling, both professionally and personally. Although I didn't write much on this blog because I was preoccupied with writing for a living, the love for writing was still massive.

In early 2024, the publication got a new Editor-in-Chief whose management style was on a collision course with how I had worked for the past year and a half. He wanted more structure for my role, more formality (and rightfully so), while I was used to my Wild Wild West way of working. Despite the newfound troubles with my boss, I still did decent work and won some awards along the way, but I was slowly falling out of love with the work and, consequently, with writing.

And finally, I arrive at the whole point of this blog. 

Sometimes you fall out of love with the one thing you love the most (and not only because you didn't see eye to eye with your boss, but for many other reasons), and what I have learnt over the years is that hey, that breakup is necessary. So how do you get back to loving that thing again? Well, what I've learnt is that it happens by you letting it all work out on its own. Running the gauntlet, as the saying goes.

Maybe you will fall back in love with it, maybe you won't.

While six years ago I had the ability and the passion to write about any and everything, from books I've read to social topics to technology, post 2022, I think I averaged maybe 4 posts annually (at most) on this blog. I just didn't have the motivation. 

So, yeah, that's what I wanted to share today. I know it's not much after going silent for a year and a half on this blog, but hey, there is a reason it's called Some Black Guy's Thoughts.

Will I write more here from here on? Honestly, I don't know. But what I do know is that I hate writing less than I did for the last two years or so, so maybe!