Few years ago I read about commonplace books, and how Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Abraham Lincoln all kept a commonplace book. Roughly speaking it's a scrap book of everything they find interesting. So I started doing the same thing.
Whilst I'd love become an amateur write or literary critic at the moment coding consumes most of my time, hence my commonplace book - without me wanting it to - turned into a personal technical blog.
The reason why I started to publicly publish some of what I write is because it's fun!
The "giving back to the community" is a good answer, I'll use it is anyone I might want to impress asks but for me it's just fun. I do it in private so why no publish 1% of it just to test the waters :)
Agree, on the other hand it can also be a lot of work. Indeed when I write on a notebook, I can be inaccurate, write just couple of pointers, etc.
While writing on a blog, I need to tell a more complete story, define a structure about the thing I want to document.
Few years ago I read about commonplace books, and how Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Abraham Lincoln all kept a commonplace book. Roughly speaking it's a scrap book of everything they find interesting. So I started doing the same thing.
Whilst I'd love become an amateur write or literary critic at the moment coding consumes most of my time, hence my commonplace book - without me wanting it to - turned into a personal technical blog.
The reason why I started to publicly publish some of what I write is because it's fun!
The "giving back to the community" is a good answer, I'll use it is anyone I might want to impress asks but for me it's just fun. I do it in private so why no publish 1% of it just to test the waters :)
Agree, on the other hand it can also be a lot of work. Indeed when I write on a notebook, I can be inaccurate, write just couple of pointers, etc.
While writing on a blog, I need to tell a more complete story, define a structure about the thing I want to document.
Absolutely. Most cases it takes me a week to write on tutorial.
It's hard work. But I like to believe all this is helping me somehow
(It's not that I've been doing this for a long time though)
Pretty similar to my workflow XD