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by noizejoy 707 days ago
The answer may be obtained via drawing a venn diagram estimating the audience overlap between the various topics.

Unless you’re being followed as a celebrity, the full context of your life is simply not that interesting.

So the answer is more often than not: publish different topics under different brands. Cross-link in the about section, if you think there’s more upside than downside.

Or in other words: if I love your software-engineering content, but your general life content turns me off, there’s a good chance that I’ll stop reading your stuff entirely. And if you commingle topics, that’s on you. If you keep them separate and I commingle, that’s on me.

So unless you’re a super rare source of unique insight,