I've read John's blog before and I never found it terribly interesting. I kind of found myself thinking "so what's the point of all this again?". Like most bloggers, he seems to write observational, journal like blog articles (not as bad as some people who literally treat their blog as their journal, but yeah, it’s the same sort of thing). There's nothing wrong with doing that, but in terms of offering something of value, you'd be hard pressed to go past what Steve does (which is why I like his blog so much). Steve has learnt how to write about personal experiences in such a way that they are of value to him as well as others.
That said, you only learn as much as you want to learn. Life's lessons are usually hidden, and if you look hard for the lessons, you’ll find them. So yeah, I think we’re all better off having JohnChow.com (as opposed to not having it). Could John make better use of his time doing something that would have a bigger more impact? Maybe. But for now, I’m ok to leaving the big impact blogging stuff to Steve, since he’s so good at it (other people have an impact, but I'd say "how" Steve makes an impact and the size of his impact makes him pretty unique).
Other people don’t seem to have such an easy time with making a big impact in the blogosphere (mostly because they’re not playing to their strengths). Hopefully one day I’ll have enough knowledge about my strengths to make a similar sort of impact doing whatever I end up doing (my interests are far too spread out right now to answer the big “what should I do with my life?” question... I’m mostly in the process of learning and exploring what was previously unconscious to me).
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