For a long time, I don't believe in the idea of niche, narrowing down our interest and to become known for one thing and one thing only. Yet I am teaching my students to narrow down their niche because I know, my ways don't work. So, I am trying to tell them that it's always best to be known for one thing and one thing only. Some of them are nurse, some of them are NGO workers, some of them are educators. Regardless any other identity that they have outside their professional job, I make sure they have one thing that they're really good at and known for. But apparently, there's more than just meets the eye.

I also recently wrote a post on my instagram highlighting that I worked for 9 years but got nowhere. Maybe those years weren't wasted and I rightfully hope so. Instead, those years are bringing me closer to that narrowing down identity I was longing and searching for.

So, I did an audit on my content on peakd because that's where I spend time on writing as opposed to my other socials. When you see my content, it's all externally scattered. One day I am talking about how amazing a mountain is, next thing you know, I was learning a topic that is completely unrelated and then talking about a train. Pretty scattered, aren't they? For a long time, I thought people would see the thread behind what I am writing but even my 'framework' was too scattered.

Many people here constantly writes about movie review, food and travel, photography, freewriting and you associate them with those quite easily. A historian, a business developers or even a doctor can cover many things but they still operate under a framework that they choose to see their surrounding with.

I am not saying that I didn't knew all of these, I knew it and refused to do it. Instead if you actually type on 'niche' on the search bar with author 'macchiata' you'll come to know I talked about from many years ago.

This situation is just like the layered latte that I made today. There’s a little bit of milk, a little bit of coffee, a little bit of foam. They are quite distinct from one another but creates a harmony and a balanced taste when it’s done well. - Between Expression And Perception, Layered Like This Latte

But is it really? To the outside world they don't see the thread that connects all of them unlike I did. It all look really scattered, inconsistent and you never know what to expect from this page. I am working on changing that because I can't be stuck doing the same thing for another decade, doing things that doesn't work.

During that teaching session, I reflected that the underlaying of things I talked about is "system" and behind all of my writing, there was a framework of curiosity and wanting to know how system is made. My purpose and goal were to people see the systems behind the places they experience a little differently.

Still, I don't think I'll be the person to only write one topic. Topics can be many thing but the framework is what going to help people remember us. And that's something I am experimenting for the next decade.