On Saturday, I posted a survey to get your feedback on my blog. I got a ton of awesome responses, so thanks a bunch to everybody who answered!
Today, I’m going to highlight some of the utterly and most completely super-important and significant things I learned from that survey.
I arranged these observations by question number. The reader responses are in bold type, while my comments are in normal type.
Read on to find out:
- what do saddles for giraffes have to do with personal development
- that my blog is kinda alright, and “not too bad”
- The REAL reason people read my blog (2nd answer to question 2)
It doesn’t get more significant and life-changing than that!
Question 1: How did you first come across my blog?
Here’s a sampling of some responses I got:
I can’t remember.
I don’t remember.
I cant remember anymore sry
Sadly, I can’t remember. It could have been StumbleUpon, but I’m not sure.
Sorry, I don’t recall… it’s been quite a while now.
Clearly, what we can learn from this question is… I need to do some posts on improving memory! 
Question 2: In 1 or 2 sentences, why do you read my blog?
I somehow read the Linux stuff and the rest of your blog’s not too bad either (ok, most of it).
So we learn that my blog content is kinda alright, and “not too bad”! Sweet 
drunk
[I honestly can't think of a witty response here, but it was too awesome not to share . So, whoever you are that posted this... you get a VladPoint!]
It offers a fresh perspective in a fun and simple way that doesn’t come off as a “I’m better than you and you should listen to all I say” tone.
I’M BETTER THAN YOU AND YOU SHOULD LISTEN TO EVERYTHING I SAY!
I just basicly think you are awesome, Vlad.
Uh oh, I think I have a stalker here.
It originally provided short, meaningful insight and some of the math things were interesting.
Phew, good thing I got rid of all the meaningful and interesting stuff!
Question 3: What topics would you like to see more of?
How to make saddles for giraffes, and tips on how to ride them.
Wow, what a co-incidence! I was just preparing a 12-post series on that topic! I find that riding giraffes is crucial in understanding the connection between using Linux and personal development…
Question 4: What is the most important thing I can help people with?
life
Ah, and here I was, thinking of helping people with death.
Question 6: Do you have any questions you would like me to answer in my future posts?
Gnome or KDE? and why?
Ah, yes, that’s the eternal question. Even Socrates said, “After 60 years of pondering, there is still one question I have no idea about. KDE or Gnome?”
And his apprentice answered “How about this one: ‘Vi or emacs?’”
And thus Socrates said unto him “Yeah, that one too, but it doesn’t sound as dramatic to say ‘After 60 years of pondering, there are still two questions… no wait, three… no, wait…’ ”
And the apprentice was enligtened.
Question 7: Any other comments/feedback:
(…) none of the options in (5) are very appealing, but maybe its just that i like to read (and not to listen)
Keep up the good work! -1 for Video/Audio things.
Maybe I’m weird, but I prefer text posts to audio or video.
Ah! The last person gets it! Us 4 are weird (I also personally prefer text), and everybody else who likes audio and video is completely normal.
On a more serious note…
On a more serious note, there really were a ton of great responses, and hopefully I’ll assemble the serious version of this article by tomorrow. There’s a lot of good stuff in there I want to share with you all.
Thanks a bunch to everyone who filled out the survey!
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Thanks for sharing the responses. I took the survey and it’s nice to see what the feedback was. I also got some great laughs out of reading this post. Saddles for giraffes? hahahahaha.
Positively Present’s last blog post..let’s go! 5 steps for getting on the road to your goal
thanks a lot for the VladPoint
Yay my comment got into the post! And no, you are not better than me and I won’t listen to everything you say!
@PP:
Pfff, people these days don’t understand the importance of riding giraffes.
@ssNot:
Oooh yaa, you’re very welcome. Based on rarity value, it’s more valuable than a brick of gold!
@Christian:
Oh well, it was worth a try
Wooho, I also got mentioned
You quip about death, but it’s serious business for some of us. Makes me curious about what you would write if you did do a blog about maybe-fun death. We’re all going there, so it merits more thought than most people give it.
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@Gabrielle:
Actually, there isn’t much I have to say about death in general. Yes it happens, and yes, it sucks, but there wouldn’t be much point in me blogging about it, just like there wouldn’t be much point in me blogging about cancer or starving children in Africa.
But fear of death, on the other hand, IS a very interesting topic that relates to human psychology and personal development. So I might well write about that in the future.
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