Vibe blogging: new media philosophy

It's hard to say, what I am up to these days. I just resumed to my work after my one week of heavy exams.

The week was not just about exams but rather family responsibilities as well. Basically, it was heavy lifting and uncertain life. But I embraced it and lived through it.

Heavy lifting in life is often looked down by many and goes unrecognized by many, even closely associated and the partner. But the core is to embrase it at least to yourself.

To calm myself, I just started to browse some of the blogs I follow and started reading. Most of them have a niche they write in, like space, lifestyle, personal stuff etc. 

But I dont follow a particular niche, at times I write on sudoku, then the next day I write about self-goals, another day about IndieWeb etc. This confuses many onto why they should even read my blog. 

I went to Chat GPT, my new assistant to search out stuff, and asked it, what niche of blogging I am doing.

To my surprise I found that it's called Vibe Blogging.

Here is what ChatGPT had to say:

What is Vibe Blogging?

Vibe blogging is a relaxed, spontaneous way of blogging focused on capturing feelings, thoughts, or moments—without worrying about structure or perfection.

Key Traits:

• Unfiltered expression: Write like you talk. Minimal editing. Raw and real.

• No pressure to be “useful”: It’s more like a public diary than a content strategy.

• Mood-driven: You post when you feel like it, about whatever’s on your mind.

• Any format goes: Two lines or two pages. No rules.

• Connection over content: Readers come for you, not just what you write.

Why it matters:

In a world chasing polish and productivity, vibe blogging is a quiet, authentic rebellion.

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I believe I can conclude that this blog genre is vibe blogging: just jotting down whatever is coming in my mind. 

My vibes are that I like to think, annotate and describe a particular idea or thing in different perspectives it has. It's not just about jotting some random ideas in a random way, rather a structured the write up. This allows me to add more depth to my thought process, and deeper meaning to my writings. 

I have always considered critical thinking as my core skill. I dont overthink and have a divergent process of structuring my thoughts. I conduct thought experiments and formulate hypothesis for different possible scenarios, its outcomes and trade-offs. I get stuck at decision making though, which is a hard part for me. (But thanks to my wife who saves me at these critical points who is good at decision making.) 

I am now learning how to make better and wise decisions. Decision making is an art that can be learned. It always has a risk factor as the outcomes are always futuristic. 

These hypotheses I formulate help me to understand and analyse if my thinking is rightly directed or not. The result of these hypothesis is always a time dependent. My major concern is to reduce its risk.

I train my brain to lift heavy stuff and challenge itself. Mental health is my primary goal. Mental control and brain health is important to me. To be on-the-grounds of a safe mental health, I do blog. This is not a bitching blog, but it's more like a thought experiment or a commonplace digital notebook.

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The next question I pondered upon was whether Vibe Blogging is all about blogging using AI.

The name is very similar to Vibe Coding, where people code using English language to build some digital products or tools. 

Basically, from what I understand I like to describe vibe blogging as a philosophy of blogging which more of a relaxed, raw, emotion-driven, spontaneous way of putting thoughts on a digital paper—no pressure.

GPT (or any AI) can help with vibe blogging (e.g., use it to brainstorm or clean up the writings), but it's not a requirement—it's a tool.

Vibe blogging is all about sitting down and typing whatever’s on my mind, without overthinking grammar, SEO, structure, or even for that matter how well the blog is going to perform.

I may ask GPT to help me fix typos, grammatically accurate, check the syntax and suggest some ideas. Here I am using GPT to support vibe blogging, but the vibe is purely mine.

Vibe blogging comes from the heart 💓, not from the tool you use.