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Statistics and numbers from a year of consistent writing

Statistics and numbers from a year of consistent writing

This post was originally meant to be published before Nowruz 2019, but due to certain events that happened in the last days of the year, it stayed unpublished until today. It’s also slightly improved and more complete now.

Over the past year, I wrote continuously for the first time. 120 posts consisting of daily notes, nightly reflections, personal thoughts, experiences, and a few specialized posts. Before diving into the stats, I want to share my feelings about this year-long effort. I want to thank myself for the kindness I showed. I created a space to release my thoughts and share them with myself. I found good friends, let go of the bad ones, and all of this happened under the umbrella of this blog.

The most visited pages on my blog are:

The most impactful posts I wrote:

The most negative feedback I received this year:

“A twisted guy decided to be a patriot” | In the post My Trip to Iran
- Anonymous (in their own imagination, of course)

The most positive feedback I received:

“We were the first training group on April 25, 2017, all sad and homesick. After a few days, when we got to know you, you lifted our spirits. You were the only one like us, we were comfortable with you. Whenever the name Sergeant Gholami came up, both Turks and Kurds said you were kind and caring. I’ll never forget the things you listened to for our sake, the camp road to the shooting range where we sang ‘yakamüz’, I will never forget. You even disciplined my friend once, and I got the lesson too, I’ll never forget that, but later you won our hearts; now that training is over, I realize how much we wanted you. Wherever you are, may God protect you, we sincerely wish you success and happiness.”
- Ali Farzaneh (One of the soldiers of Tower Four 2017 whom I coached) | In the post Military Service at a Glance or How I Became Sergeant Gholami?

Emails I received thanks to my blog:

Emails from people asking about programming or life in Istanbul, or emails from those offering collaboration or asking for help with a project. I hope this increases a lot. I love email conversations and respond eagerly and promptly to every email I receive. You can also be one of the people whose email inspires a similar post next year: Contact me. Please.

People I met in person thanks to my blog:

Unfortunately, this hasn’t happened yet. I hope it happens a lot this year.

Although the blogging community has been very kind to me, I’m not personally close enough to anyone to invite them directly. But anyone reading this who has a blog is invited to write a similar post.
(Please link this post if you do so, so it’s registered in the reflections section and I can read your post too.)

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