"Should developers put themselves out there" - the short answer is, no.
Do it if you want to and if you see the value of it, but not because someone tells you to. Let's stop driving each other crazy telling one another what we "should" do.
I'm seeing way too many silly posts on dev.to along the lines of "why EVERY developer SHOULD blog ..." or "why EVERY developer SHOULD do open source ..." and so on - that's just nonsense, you can advise people about the pros (and cons) of blogging or whatever, but stop declaring what people "should" do.
You wanna blog or speak, that's fantastic, you don't wanna blog or speak, also fine. People may have busy work lives, or busy personal lives, and might have no time, energy or interest to blog or whatever else in their spare time, or might simply have different goals in life.
Let everyone decide for themselves what they want or don't want to do - let's stop assuming that we ought to be like this or do like that, just because we're "devs".
I think when someone mention that other "should" do A or B, because they personally gain benefit from what they do and enjoy it. They recommend and encourage others to do the same to give them similar chance.
But you're also right that maybe others have different goals and want to do other activities in their spare time.
At the end, it depends on themselves 🙂
Well, it's about the way it's often phrased - typically (I've encountered this at least half a dozen times) the title goes like:
"Why EVERY developer SHOULD ..." (capitalization mine)
That's what I take issue with ... who is the author to declare what "every" developer "should" do? I'd say, speak for yourself, do explain what you think is great about it, and then I'll decide for myself 🙂
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"Should developers put themselves out there" - the short answer is, no.
Do it if you want to and if you see the value of it, but not because someone tells you to. Let's stop driving each other crazy telling one another what we "should" do.
I'm seeing way too many silly posts on dev.to along the lines of "why EVERY developer SHOULD blog ..." or "why EVERY developer SHOULD do open source ..." and so on - that's just nonsense, you can advise people about the pros (and cons) of blogging or whatever, but stop declaring what people "should" do.
You wanna blog or speak, that's fantastic, you don't wanna blog or speak, also fine. People may have busy work lives, or busy personal lives, and might have no time, energy or interest to blog or whatever else in their spare time, or might simply have different goals in life.
Let everyone decide for themselves what they want or don't want to do - let's stop assuming that we ought to be like this or do like that, just because we're "devs".
I think when someone mention that other "should" do A or B, because they personally gain benefit from what they do and enjoy it. They recommend and encourage others to do the same to give them similar chance.
But you're also right that maybe others have different goals and want to do other activities in their spare time.
At the end, it depends on themselves 🙂
Well, it's about the way it's often phrased - typically (I've encountered this at least half a dozen times) the title goes like:
"Why EVERY developer SHOULD ..." (capitalization mine)
That's what I take issue with ... who is the author to declare what "every" developer "should" do? I'd say, speak for yourself, do explain what you think is great about it, and then I'll decide for myself 🙂