#017: My most popular posts 2022

Review of my blog performance so far

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I have been silent recently as I have been busy working on my other blog Guide to Product Management: Another topic I am passionate about.

Yet, I have no intention to stop writing about Personal Exponential Growth as I’ve got very encouraging feedback about it and have a long backlog of topics to write about.

But first, I want to share the list of my most popular posts of 2022.

A few interesting things I observed when analyzing the list:

• Even though I post the same articles on Substack as well as on Medium the order of popularity of the posts is different. I assume this is related to how the stats are measured on both platforms as well as the different algorithms that promote my content.
• The order of popularity does not reflect how I would rank my posts myself. I guess the reason is that views and reads of posts heavily depend on the title, headline and header image whereas the way I’d rank them is purely content-based.

So here’s the list:

1. #006: Selling Your Time for Money is a Bad Deal
2. #001: Invest Like Venture Capitalists (Part 1/4): A Financial Home Run is Part of a Strategy and not Luck.
3. #007: Know Your Savings Rate or You’ll Regret It
4. #013: Investing Through Industry Insights
5. #002: Invest Like Venture Capitalists (Part 2/4): Why Crypto Should Be Part of Your Portfolio — Even If You Are Not a Fan of it.
6. #003: Invest Like Venture Capitalists (Part 3/4): Quantifying worst, modest, and best case scenarios
7. #005: The Naked Truth About Your Net Worth
8. #009: Personal Financial Planning and Investing
9. #004: Invest Like Venture Capitalists (Part 4/4): How to select individual (Crypto) investments?
10. #016: The Secret To Growth Is Discipline
11. #008: Maximize Satisfaction over a Lifetime
12. #015: If You Stop Learning You Stop Growing
13. #011: Tools I Use To Invest In The Stock Market
14. #014: The Difference Between Value and Price
15. #012: Tax-deductible pension-fund contributions
16. #010: Define and Track Your Personal Progress

Key takeaways

1. Ranking your posts according to popularity depends on how you measure popularity.
2. Title, header and image heavily influence the popularity of a post.
3. Your own ranking as a writer might not reflect how people rank your posts.

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