I just realized the other day that I have been blogging for over 10 years (I am old!) First hello world post post was back in December 2011.

I would recommend folks in academia/coding to at a minimum do a personal webpage. I use wordpress for my blog (did a free wordpress for quite a long time). WordPress is 0 code to make a personal page to host your CV.

I treat the blog as mostly my personal nerd journal, and blog about things I am working on or rants on occasion. I do not make revenue off of the blog directly, but in terms of getting me exposure it has given quite a few consulting leads over the years. As well as just given my academic work a much wider exposure.

So I always have a few things I want to blog about in the hopper. But always feel free to ask me anything (similar to how Andrew Gelman answers emails), and if I get a chance I will throw up a blog post in response.