Howdy, my pricey readers – it has been a minute, hasn’t it? First, I need to say thanks in your great suggestions in your reader survey. I like with the ability to join with you this fashion – actually, I miss the remark part! I additionally need to get up from my trip coma and inform myself I’m nonetheless right here! I’m nonetheless alive and I’ve not deserted you. I simply had a couple of days off – Similar to an precise day without work ——I need to do nothing however create content material. Content material creation has been part of my life for therefore lengthy that it has seeped into each a part of my mind; it takes actual effort to cease doing it. For instance, I seen that I filmed trip moments for myself on my telephone, not fairly prepared to go surfing; for my very own reminiscence, not the algorithm. This is not meant to disgrace my previous self and/or profession selections, and it is undoubtedly not meant to disgrace those that additionally create content material on-line, reasonably, I’ve simply found how good it’s to emulate occasionally.

So I have been studying all your feedback, ideas, suggestions, and actually, numerous sort messages and inspiring ideas. Typically I hate that we do not know one another in actual life, however I really feel like we might be nice associates. Evidently all of us like and dislike issues in the identical means. That being mentioned, I am going to let all the pieces you guys recommend be integrated whereas attempting to steadiness easy methods to transfer ahead with the suggestions offered and what I personally hope to do with KE subsequent 12 months. I feel taking a while now can assist me heal from some actual burnout and actually strive to determine the place I’m in all of this. Burnout has been particularly laborious on me this 12 months, and to be trustworthy, I virtually left after 14 years earlier than a reader survey. I had misplaced myself within the ever-changing business and actually wished to search out myself once more. I am bored with leaping by means of each new hoop to please the algorithm, as an alternative I simply need to create content material for you and me. I strive to not exaggerate, so if I am transient, that is why. I haven’t sorted out all my ideas but—they’re nonetheless coming to me, so I attempt to watch out with my dramatic phrases.

All in all, thanks in your go to over the previous 14 years. That is laborious for me to imagine. Thanks for seeing people as an alternative of content material creators, though generally I default to the latter out of behavior and ease. I need to provide the finest content material I can in 2024, so I will use these two weeks of college holidays to essentially lay low on-line, spend time with my household, go for lengthy walks and be sort to myself . I hope the identical for you too.

Over the subsequent few days I will be doing a little post-Christmas gross sales wrap-up and writing some basic “better of” posts, however I hope to see you within the new 12 months with some new concepts. Thanks once more to all netizens. I’ve nothing however gratitude for you.