You might need novelty for a side project to hit the front page of Hacker News, but you don't need novelty to see benefits from the "Do things and write about t

You might need novelty for a side project to hit the front page of Hacker News, but you don't need novelty to see benefits from the "Do things and write about them" paradigm. For example, you could write blog posts about problems you've run into and how you solved them if the solution isn't already on Stack Overflow.