Attacking your sucky excuses for not blogging
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Attacking your sucky excuses for not blogging
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#3Dammit Bear man, I am a software developer, not a writer.
But more seriously, he is dead wrong, except for seo purposes. Nobody reads on the Internet anyway so steal a page from the Danish entrepreneur Martin Thorborg and blog in video form directly from your iphone.
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#4You already know that nowadays you’re invisible without some sort of social media presence.
You know, some of us kind of like it that way. Anonymity has its virtues.
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#5You already know that nowadays you’re invisible without some sort of social media presence. You know, some of us kind of like it that way. Anonymity has its virtues.
Unfortunately, being anonymous and unheard of isn't helpful if you're building a business, which was the point of the OP.
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#6There is a second really important reason to blog, if you write software (and are any good at it). Blogging is a great way to improve your writing and the more senior you become the more you will find that your challenge is not just grokking things yourself but helping other people grok them. Almost all of the really stellar software engineers I worked with, like the senior people at Google, were excellent writers and constantly working hard to improve their writing.
A side note, if English is your second language don't despair. It's easier to rise above the mean than you think and all the good native speakers have achieved their skills by working really hard on it. You might not have enough lifespan to hit the literary top but more than enough to become a really efficient communicator.
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#7Dammit Bear man, I am a software developer, not a writer. But more seriously, he is dead wrong, except for seo purposes. Nobody reads on the Internet anyway so steal a page from the Danish entrepreneur Martin Thorborg and blog in video form directly from your iphone.
Uhh... according to your HN user page, you blog at www.tomjen.net, which you just started 12 days ago. That's a pretty short time in which to do a 180.
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#8Dammit Bear man, I am a software developer, not a writer. But more seriously, he is dead wrong, except for seo purposes. Nobody reads on the Internet anyway so steal a page from the Danish entrepreneur Martin Thorborg and blog in video form directly from your iphone.
Uhh... according to your HN user page, you blog at www.tomjen.net, which you just started 12 days ago. That's a pretty short time in which to do a 180.
Nah, just trying to make a cheap star trek joke, since I am tired of being told that I must do this and that when I just want to write software.
Do you really think I keep a blog because I like writing? I don't, but I have seen too many posts saying you must have a blog that I can't disagree with.
Doesn't mean I should like it, nor do I intend to keep doing it for long, just until I have a couple hundred articles then I hope that will be enough to point to if anybody asks.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Uhh... according to your HN user page, you blog at www.tomjen.net, which you just started 12 days ago. That's a pretty short time in which to do a 180.
Nah, just trying to make a cheap star trek joke, since I am tired of being told that I must do this and that when I just want to write software. Do you really think I keep a blog because I like writing? I don't, but I have seen too many posts saying you must have a blog that I can't disagree with. Doesn't mean I should like it, nor do I intend to keep doing it for long, just until I have a couple hundred articles the…
But to be honest, "seriously, nobody reads on the internet anyway" on a site that is built around reading and discussing articles is a bit strange. Was that meant as ironic too?
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#10There is a second really important reason to blog, if you write software (and are any good at it). Blogging is a great way to improve your writing and the more senior you become the more you will find that your challenge is not just grokking things yourself but helping other people grok them. Almost all of the really stellar software engineers I worked with, like the senior people at Google, were excellent writers an…
The thing is that while I do blog, I don't really want to become a communicator, I, and I guess plenty of other people, am plenty happy being a software developer. I will much rather spend a weekend playing with node.js than write.
I do believe many people feel the same way, but obviously the viewpoint isn't blogged about so often.