If the whole purpose of blogging is to reflect and write down thoughts and learn/(have personal discussions), why not just use notepad?
If you want your content to be read, that's obviously a different matter, but blogging framed as "notepadding" seems somewhat disingenious?
I dunno, but my impression is that blogging is done with some degree of underlying desire to reach out to people and have your writings read (which is fine).
Blogging (with a domain) is more expensive, more cumbersome, less write-friendly due to HTML and .md syntaxing and formatting and it's also laced with the entertainment-complex (it might be read by someone so it should be good writing). But in my opinion this entertainer-complex makes your writing more edgy and attention-seeking (which again is fine).
That's my ramblings :)
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Blogging being less write-friendly? It can be as simple as writing a tweet, or editing a comment for HN. It doesn't need to involve git or hugo. You could use one of the big blogging platforms, and have no more than a login and some HTML text fields.
Blogging as pressure to improve your writing is real, and that's one of the reasons I blog.
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