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This is absolute horseshit. This industry is filled with peacockers who write posts about mundane things and it comes a race of bullshitting. It’s ok to learn

This is absolute horseshit. This industry is filled with peacockers who write posts about mundane things and it comes a race of bullshitting. It’s ok to learn in private before you come to enlighten the whole world about your expertise.

ubertaco 2y ago
>Whatever your thing is, make the thing you wish you had found when you were learning. Don’t judge your results by “claps” or retweets or stars or upvotes - just talk to yourself from 3 months ago. I keep an almost-daily dev blog written for no one else but me. >Guess what? It’s not about reaching as many people as possible with your content. If you can do that, great, remember me when you’re famous. But chances are that by far the biggest beneficiary of you trying to help past you is future you. If others benefit, that’s icing. I feel like this is sorta counter to the "peacockers who write posts about mundane things", because it's very explicitly "these are my notes for me". You might say "why in public, then?", and I think the value _does_ get to "if someone else benefits" -- but admittedly, that requires some straining out the obvious materials (but really, are you that likely to keep around a blog post about "today I learned what public static void main(String[] args) means" for your own reference later?)
- coolThingsFirst 2y ago
  Not only it doesn't benefit anyone but the majority of blog posts on topics are garbage and contain many mistakes. (Google search results are useless because of blogs by beginners) I'd be careful to write blog posts willy nilly. It turns the entire industry into shit. Because if someone didn't blog about something, they are assumed to not know it in today's world. LinkedIn is the worst offender, I deleted it because of constant endless corporate horseshit. |crypto| ai| enterprenours| who won't shut up making the more qualified people feel invisible.

ubertaco 2y ago

>Whatever your thing is, make the thing you wish you had found when you were learning. Don’t judge your results by “claps” or retweets or stars or upvotes - just talk to yourself from 3 months ago. I keep an almost-daily dev blog written for no one else but me. >Guess what? It’s not about reaching as many people as possible with your content. If you can do that, great, remember me when you’re famous. But chances are that by far the biggest beneficiary of you trying to help past you is future you. If others benefit, that’s icing. I feel like this is sorta counter to the "peacockers who write posts about mundane things", because it's very explicitly "these are my notes for me". You might say "why in public, then?", and I think the value _does_ get to "if someone else benefits" -- but admittedly, that requires some straining out the obvious materials (but really, are you that likely to keep around a blog post about "today I learned what public static void main(String[] args) means" for your own reference later?)

coolThingsFirst 2y ago
Not only it doesn't benefit anyone but the majority of blog posts on topics are garbage and contain many mistakes. (Google search results are useless because of blogs by beginners) I'd be careful to write blog posts willy nilly. It turns the entire industry into shit. Because if someone didn't blog about something, they are assumed to not know it in today's world. LinkedIn is the worst offender, I deleted it because of constant endless corporate horseshit. |crypto| ai| enterprenours| who won't shut up making the more qualified people feel invisible.