How to Write More Blog Posts (2024)
The article provides advice for software engineers on how to write more blog posts. It emphasizes the importance of viewing writing as a valuable investment and suggests writing with the goal of popularity to motivate oneself. Additionally, it discusses the need for informative content that meets readers at their current level of understanding.
- ▪Writing is a complex task that requires a belief in its value.
- ▪To motivate writing, aim for popularity and engagement from readers.
- ▪Informative blog posts should teach readers something relevant to their current knowledge level.
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You are a software engineer and have the luxury of facing interesting problems. You would like to tell others about the interesting stuff that you work on, but once your pen is pointed at blank paper (or your cursor is at offset 0 of an empty file), you just don’t know how to make progress.In this post I have some advice for you, but beware: advice for complex problems (writing is complex) usually has to be either actionable but narrowly applicable, or widely applicable but very high-level.I’m going for the second kind, which means that you have good chances that your issues are addressed at some level by this post, but it’s going to be up to you to figure out the details of your specific situation.The first law of mental thermodynamicsYou won’t be able to consistently get writing done…
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