Someone who has just learned something is in the best position to teach that thing to others.
If you are an an expert in a topic it can be hard to understand which aspects of that thing are non-obvious to beginners.
Ask HN: Starting blogging when you're not an expert?
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#12Do it
Trying to put what you think you know into words is a powerful way of finding out how well or not you really know the subject. Bonus: You'll find you hear from people in the same position as you which gets you encouragement, makes contacts and keeps your motivation high
Pressing 'publish' on my first blog post was nerve-wracking but really there was nothing to worry about. Do it
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#13It's a great idea! Every act of doing, especially new things can only lead to new skills being developed. It's free, why not! There can only be benefits, documenting the journey of learning. Search for "Gary Vaynerchuk Document VS Create", a nice piece (blog, also a video) about the benefits of it.
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#14Do it dude!
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#15Do it.
I recently started writing gists (https://gist.github.com/CarlMungazi) about the stuff I'm learning whilst reading through the source code of a framework I use at work.
I'm not expecting to understand everything and I will probably get some things wrong (reading source code is difficult) but in the short time I've been doing this I've already learnt a lot.
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#16Blog everything that costs you more than x minutes to figure out, especially when you didn't find a relevant StackOverflow post or similar.
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#17Yes, do it. 100 times yes. While you write blog posts to recap your experiences, and you do it carefully, you will often find details and answers that you didn't find before and thus deepen your understanding. Kind of like taking a step back and looking at the bigger picture. So even if nobody reads your blog posts (and they will be read by someone), it's worth it.
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#18Yes absolutely you will learn about yourself and the tech.
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#19Sure it makes sense! Just blog about the things you learn. You will probably end up blogging about things that are new to other people. Best example I know of is Julia Evans [1]. She blogs about the things she learns in areas many people are mot an expert of. I find most of her blogs very interesting. [1] https://jvns.ca
Came here to make the same recommendation for Julia Evans' blog. Ask questions, find answers, expand your understanding, repeat.
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#20Of course do it! - pretty much I'm doing it with couple restarts since 2011: http://lukaszkups.net ;)