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> up-to-date and relevant These don't have to be synonyms.
Of course not, I wouldn't have used both if they were synonymous, that would be redundant.
Not to mention you'd be repeating yourself!
Ask HN: Is having a personal blog/brand worth it for you?
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Re: Ask HN: Is having a personal blog/brand worth it for you?
#302I do believe blogging is valuable
-Is the time spent writing worth to me? Yes - I find it's helpful to jot information down so that I can refer to it later. It's a bonus point to get known within a topic or when others come and say that my material is helpful
-Did it help me find opportunities? I've been approached once for an opportunity to work based on my work online
-Did I learn something new from it? Yes. Writing down my work is a great way for me to learn as it tells me if I have holes in my knowledge when I go to explain my thoughts.
Re: Ask HN: Is having a personal blog/brand worth it for you?
#303I found I only have something really worth saying every few years which isn't often enough to make my blog be content marketing for my personal brand. I do like my blog, I can read things I wrote a decade ago and still believe in them. Any sort of artificial cadence would undermine this. Also as I get older I find the hot takes I used to write down are not interesting enough to share in article form. They live better…
I often feel this. Generally I come up with content worth spending writing, only so often. But then don't end up doing it because the idea loses its sexiness after a few days.
But more recently, I am worried that my ability to think coherently for more than 140 characters is gone. Whenever I think of something, I keep falling back to a tweet length content. My twitter is dead, so the concern is amplified.
Re: Ask HN: Is having a personal blog/brand worth it for you?
#304I've been writing online for almost 10 years now https://podviaznikov.com/writings The best part for me is receiving some random emails from time to time with people saying they liked my post or poem or something else. I don't have expectations for those letters though. Intentionally I don't have google analytics on my site. When I did have it, it influenced how and what I was writing. Now I just write for myself. An…
Ah, I wrote almost exactly this! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32146815 Also, I love the simplicity of your site. Cheers!
this is so cool! I also love Clojure
Re: Ask HN: Is having a personal blog/brand worth it for you?
#305I have been blogging since before it was called that. I wrote a post about using the A* algorithm for path finding in games. The included code was used by quite a few game companies, some of whom I ended up working for. Recently I expanded the blog to include video which has been a learning experience for me. Mostly I do this stuff for my own entertainment but it has had a pronounced effect on my career. People don’t…
Aha! A fellow org-mode-rooted blogger. I see your "How to blog with Org-mode" post and raise you mine: https://www.evalapply.org/posts/why-and-how-i-use-org-mode/ :D
Nice! It really is a convenient tool for this kind of thing
Re: Ask HN: Is having a personal blog/brand worth it for you?
#306I thought of writing a blog post instead: https://radoncnotes.com/2022/07/20/is-a-personal-blog-worth-...
In a nutshell, yes!
Re: Ask HN: Is having a personal blog/brand worth it for you?
#307I don't have a blog per se, it is mostly social networking, first Livejournal, then Facebook. I think my writing is decent or my thoughts are resonating with certain people, because I used to have some discussion in comment section here and there.
I am writing about everything I am interested in and about things in my life. Work is a big part of my life, so I write about work quite a bit.
I don't know if it really helped me somehow or it is just a network effect or otherwise, people getting to know me IRL and then found me on social networks. I never thought about "building a personal brand", it happens naturally.
Re: Ask HN: Is having a personal blog/brand worth it for you?
#308Absolutely. My very modest blog (manypossibilities.net) has helped me maintain an independent perspective and brand. The real value of the blog is the opportunity to reflect and synthesize ideas that have been percolating in your brain. I find writing very hard but every piece I have written has brought me satisfaction in having distilled something, if only for myself. It is also true that giving away real value to others in any small way through your blog/website is something that will come back to you a thousand times.
Re: Ask HN: Is having a personal blog/brand worth it for you?
#309it was useful for a time in web2.0 land but things have changed.
... also, i realized i wanted more privacy, not less as i got older. the blog was becoming a potential risk by increasing surface area of attack on identity.