So, journaling, which is already known to be a healthy practice. It begs the question, though, why publish it if it's just for you? Just write it.
Why blog if nobody reads it?
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#122One important aspect I learned about blogging is that a post effectively "ships" a side project, deeming it complete. A blog post allows me to move onto the next thing. It is closure of sorts (glouw.com if anyone is interested in the style).
Yup, wholeheartedly agree. Blogging about a side project is the final period at the end of a chapter, however small, of my life.
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#123well, we know the answer now: to train the LLM
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#124A blog becomes a testament to our willingness to be wrong publicly, to think out loud, to expose our intellectual growing pains.
And there's profound credibility in documenting our uncertainties, our revisions, our gradual approximations toward truth.
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#125That’s why I write everything. It helps me assemble my thoughts on a topic and share them with others in the future.
I often have difficulty getting topics out of my head until I write them out. Some thing I will publish that I’ve had bouncing around for a year or more and then it just stops once I publish it.
I’ve been lucky to have a few things I wrote get traction on here over the years and that’s been pretty cool.
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#126> If I write it, they will come. They won’t. There are billions of blog posts out there. The internet is an infinite void, and your blog is a whisper in a hurricane.
Where are the interesting, technical blog posts that nobody is reading? Are they being posted to HN? Someone please point me to them.
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#127So, journaling, which is already known to be a healthy practice. It begs the question, though, why publish it if it's just for you? Just write it.
Knowing that it might eventually be read by someone, does change the way you approach it
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#128There are couple of reasons why I blog. Some of them are the typical ones like to reach my audience, to inform about your products or opinions that I have.
But there is one thing that hasn’t been mentioned here yet.
Sometimes I also blog to put something onto the record.
For example, if there’s something really important for me that the company should follow like our open source philosophy.
I blog about it to make sure that people see it and measure us against it. It is basically a way for me to help we stay on our course because we don’t want to break a public record.
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#129Earlier quoted context omitted.
I regularly have conversations with people that end up with some form of "Let's not belabor this over beers but I'll send you a link to something I wrote. It may be a little bit stale but let me know what you think and we can follow up." Blogging has internal benefits of organizing thoughts or even just being a fun hobby. But it's external validation as well. Sure, writing a book is even more but that's probably 100s…
I have two book and tons of blog posts only a few people have read.. Still feels good. I even wrote a blog post on why.
Link? There’s nothing in your bio
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#130I didn't realize how bad I was at writing and also how incomplete a lot of thoughts and ideas were until I tried blogging about them.
Definitely made me respect the bloggers I read even more.