A tip for writing interesting blog posts

On a tip for writing interesting blog posts.

"Interesting" is generally an objective evaluation, but chasing that never ends, so for now "interesting" means by subjective evaluation.

My blogs are one of these three:

① Fun to write, with a solid feel that it became an interesting blog
② Fun to write, but unclear if interesting (※ past RIZIN fight reports, Hanshin Tigers, etc.)
③ Written mainly for the sake of writing, not that confident on interestingness

My usual sense split this way — not MECE, but roughly this.

By volume: ③ > ① > ②.

Still, all have value. If I had to pick, I think ③ has the most value.

When brain state is good or a great topic appears, you get ① — so of course you can write something with a solid feel.

So the most valuable is ③: somehow finishing and publishing while feeling "guess I'll write a blog for now."

And this one is ③ too.

Lately, rather than blogging, bouncing curiosities off generative AI returns surprisingly interesting answers — I structure them into docs, feel satisfied, and often never publish a blog.

Also: generative AI's thought-organizing level is so high that the "me" ratio in the output is too low, and I hesitate to publish it as my blog. Plus content prioritizes clarity for myself so much that nuance often doesn't travel (extreme wording risks misunderstanding).

Originally this blog was going to be a completely different topic. Reading, a fun idea hit me as blog material — but I got stuck putting it into words. Bouncing off generative AI returned beautifully structured thought, so I dove in and just finished documenting it.

I considered rewriting it blog-like and rejected it for the reasons above.

This time I really wanted to deepen my own conviction, so I prioritized digging with generative AI — but if I'd finished it as a blog, it probably would have been ①: fun to write with a solid interesting feel.

So instead of the killed original, I wanted to abstract the trigger for wanting to write that interesting blog and publish that.

So — the tip for interesting blogs.

Use "discomfort you once felt" as material.

Without fear of misunderstanding: discomfort you reluctantly accepted then, but kept vaguely feeling "maybe only I'm weird about this."

For example, a past blog:

This one is clear.
Muddy / grit (泥臭い)

I put into words the discomfort when, as a college intern, a workplace member declared "I've done the muddy hard work!"

Years after leaving that workplace, meeting someone else declaring the same, I felt "oh, that phrase snagged on me back then" and made a blog.

So putting "snagged" discomfort into words seems one way to write interesting blogs.

Another way to say that: doing "pattern recognition that hasn't been put into words yet."

The process: convert "something's off" into "what's off," then into "what hypotheses can I form."

And though I said discomfort, experientially it was discomfort that snags on the emotion of "anger" among joy/anger/sorrow/pleasure.

That earlier blog is straight-up angry; rereading now it has bite and feels interesting. Not hypothesis-building as content, but my then-logic for why it irritated me.

Anger faced raw has no productivity — so meta work like blogging to organize while looking down is also effective for emotional sorting.

And the biggest benefit of converting discomfort: by attaching logic to your hypothesis, you can give meaning to discomfort only past-you felt.

Not merely self-motivation — putting it into language and hypothesis makes an original thinking framework.

Why "anger"? Probably among the four emotions only anger ties to a normative sense that "the world should be this way but isn't" — so when put into words it tends to become a framework.

Beyond blog output, original thinking frameworks you can use with high conviction are powerful.

With that framework, when similar discomfort appears later, cognitive load drops sharply (sometimes you stop feeling the discomfort at all).

As years and experience stack, you learn that being logical matters — but even more, whether you yourself can accept it.

It can also be a chance to notice what virtues you hold.

I think that's the fun of writing blogs.

Finally: why not try writing an interesting blog yourself?

That's all.