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> Like: did you want to write this, or did Cloud Flare reallllllly want you to write this? Isn't most of this networking and self-promotion? It helps to annou
by ProAm 8y ago
> Like: did you want to write this, or did Cloud Flare reallllllly want you to write this?
Isn't most of this networking and self-promotion? It helps to announce if you have any kind of audience what you're doing so when the next opportunity comes long people will recognize who you are, what you've done? That's how I view all these posts.
It's the same when a startup posts a blog about a technology they've decided to use. You never hear a carpenter write a blog post about why he picked a specific type of hammer to do his job, but in SV/software/etc it seems pretty affordable (i.e. free) to kept yourself relevant in the eyes of strangers.
- dsr_ 8y agoI'm not exactly sure about carpenters, but I know blacksmiths like to write long essays with many photographs about their tools and how they are set up and why some are better than others and in what circumstances and here are the great things you can do with them... and I presume I have already had the benefit of filtering out the illiterate and uninteresting ones, because these essays tend to be pretty good. https://paulsellers.com/2013/10/debunking-myths-mysteries-scary-sharp-methods/ https://paulsellers.com/2013/10/debunking-myths-mysteries-sc... https://freethoughtblogs.com/stderr/2019/01/29/a-guest-in-the-forge/ https://freethoughtblogs.com/stderr/2019/01/29/a-guest-in-th...
- justincormack 8y agoThey may not blog as much but tool users of all sorts are as obsessive. I knew someone who had a whole house full of machine tools.