If you work hard to learn a craft and even harder to mas­ter it, if you put great thought into what you say and who you want to say it to, then there’s no bet­ter place to be pub­lished than on a web­site you your­self own.

Or that, despite the overwhelmingly positive feedback and kind regards from readers, no one is actually reading or, even worse, that my words are simply scanned and forgotten. Then there is also the fact that so much of my work is in places I don’t really own or control.

I sympathise with Patrick’s thoughts here, however I think it would be a damn shame if he stopped publishing content on the Internet. I also must confess to having a lot of Pat’s content in Instapaper and Evernote, permanently saved and often referenced.