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I've tried to create a tech blog for a long time. But because I'm quite OCD about my writing, it took ages to create a post. In the end, writing became such a chore that I stopped altogether.
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Wow, that's actually deeper than it sounds. I do wonder though: did a lot of famous scientists (like Einstein, Feynman, Turing, etc) use writing as a vehicle for learning?
Einstein was really good at thought experiments... and if I remember correctly, he said once that he sometimes had "trouble" to express thoughts in words.
Albert Einstein
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I have a full time job so writing 52 technical articles a week would be too much. To give you an example of the type of articles I've written, here are the last 10 articles I've created. 1. Berkeley’s Digital Legacy: The Evolution of BSD and Its Influence 2. Tracing the Lines: From the Telephone to Unix 3. My experience with Pop!_OS Linux Distribution 4. Enhancing Emacs Efficiency with Xah Fly Keys 5. Learning to Tou…
I just read the touch typing article. I do know what you mean by "people just enjoy things in a particular voice" and I agree with that, but I guess my main "complaint" is that you probably also didn't learn much from the touch typing article, nor introduce anything new. That sounds like a critique, but it's genuinely not - probably 90% of popular content is rehashing. I am just emphasizing that it's where my issue l…
I definitely find this to be true. I started with a little notepad calculation on the question of "what if we replaced all gas cars with EVs?" I started adding some details and eventually put it out for anyone to see https://www.capsulel.ink/capsules/what-if-all-the-gasoline-c... Kinda an amateur "publication." It seemed so simple but the more I work with the question it gets more detailed and nuanced and I also keep…
Where is the best place you've found to receive this feedback?
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Wow, that's actually deeper than it sounds. I do wonder though: did a lot of famous scientists (like Einstein, Feynman, Turing, etc) use writing as a vehicle for learning?
See "inventor's notebook": https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inventor%27s_notebook - some good examples of famous notebook habits are linked to from there (Einstein and Tesla and Edison and da Vinci are all mentioned).
A real inventor's notebook today has a space to sign and date each page, and you should X out any space you don't use. That helps it have legal force.
I started publishing "TIL" posts a few years ago and everything in this post here resonated 100% with my experience of writing those. The great thing about TILs is that once you form a solid set of habits around them they can be extremely quick to put together: the majority of my TIL posts take between 15 minutes and half an hour to write. I make extensive personal notes on everything I'm doing (in GitHub issues thre…
“Look it’s 2023 this dude just learned about http error codes”. Silly example but you get the idea.
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See "inventor's notebook": https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inventor%27s_notebook - some good examples of famous notebook habits are linked to from there (Einstein and Tesla and Edison and da Vinci are all mentioned).
Though he wasn't an eminent scientist, I worked with someone who had gone through engineering school back in the 1950s. He kept volumes of meticulous notebooks and saved a great deal of time because he never had to waste hours on "I know I figured this out in October 2022 but I can't remember how". A real inventor's notebook today has a space to sign and date each page, and you should X out any space you don't use. T…
Could you elaborate on this point?
I started publishing "TIL" posts a few years ago and everything in this post here resonated 100% with my experience of writing those. The great thing about TILs is that once you form a solid set of habits around them they can be extremely quick to put together: the majority of my TIL posts take between 15 minutes and half an hour to write. I make extensive personal notes on everything I'm doing (in GitHub issues thre…
I have this odd fear that sharing what I learned today will make me look stupid. “Look it’s 2023 this dude just learned about http error codes”. Silly example but you get the idea.
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I just read the touch typing article. I do know what you mean by "people just enjoy things in a particular voice" and I agree with that, but I guess my main "complaint" is that you probably also didn't learn much from the touch typing article, nor introduce anything new. That sounds like a critique, but it's genuinely not - probably 90% of popular content is rehashing. I am just emphasizing that it's where my issue l…
No offense but I think you've gotten lost in your thoughts and wrote down a response mid-conversation with yourself. Your "complaint" has been responded to already. The author finds it useful in the moment for himself, to better understand the topic. The author finds it useful in the future, to reference. Some other people may find it useful, and if you are not one of those people, no problem. If you haven't tried th…
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Though he wasn't an eminent scientist, I worked with someone who had gone through engineering school back in the 1950s. He kept volumes of meticulous notebooks and saved a great deal of time because he never had to waste hours on "I know I figured this out in October 2022 but I can't remember how". A real inventor's notebook today has a space to sign and date each page, and you should X out any space you don't use. T…
> That helps it have legal force Could you elaborate on this point?
If you get into legal issues around patents, being able to prove when you made notes on something could be important.
Signing and dating each page helps demonstrate that you've been taking notes at specific times.
Crossing out the areas of the page that you don't use helps in case you get accused of deliberately leaving blank space in your notebook so you can backfill it later on a page that you already signed and dated.
Of course, this is predicated on the idea that you use pen and paper for notes! All of my notes have been digital for over a decade at this point.