I would say of all the benefits, the biggest benefits are the ones it bring to how you learn and communicate. Part of why I love writing is it forces me to better understand and communicate what I know with others. This leads to filling gaps in my knowledge, hearing other viewpoints, and finding better ways to share info with others. Employers reviewing your work for a job that see your writing will see all these traits, which is great since they're great qualities to see in a coder. Coders that can communicate and learn well are much better in the long-term.
I think it's better to focus on your own development through writing than the response and popularity of your writing, since you have much less control over the later. Having a famous blog is something that, realistically speaking, can't happen to everyone and the fame will usually fade out before your career does. For yourself, it's better to see blogging more as an extension of how you build your career than just becoming popular.
It also has the added benefit of helping others by sharing info with them!
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Totally second this, especially as a development team where we see different kinds of programmers. As such, there are some who take writing as a self-improvement habit and try to stick to it but moreover it's particularly striking how those exact people are also excellent at teaching interns and seeing the bigger picture with most of the projects.
So we made it kind of a 'company value' to try to seek out and hire this kind of people in the team. Here's an article - around25.com/blog/startup-culture-... - where our CTO wrote some considerations on the topic, in case you're interested in how the whole thing is seen from a managerial point of view.
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I would say of all the benefits, the biggest benefits are the ones it bring to how you learn and communicate. Part of why I love writing is it forces me to better understand and communicate what I know with others. This leads to filling gaps in my knowledge, hearing other viewpoints, and finding better ways to share info with others. Employers reviewing your work for a job that see your writing will see all these traits, which is great since they're great qualities to see in a coder. Coders that can communicate and learn well are much better in the long-term.
I think it's better to focus on your own development through writing than the response and popularity of your writing, since you have much less control over the later. Having a famous blog is something that, realistically speaking, can't happen to everyone and the fame will usually fade out before your career does. For yourself, it's better to see blogging more as an extension of how you build your career than just becoming popular.
It also has the added benefit of helping others by sharing info with them!
Totally second this, especially as a development team where we see different kinds of programmers. As such, there are some who take writing as a self-improvement habit and try to stick to it but moreover it's particularly striking how those exact people are also excellent at teaching interns and seeing the bigger picture with most of the projects.
So we made it kind of a 'company value' to try to seek out and hire this kind of people in the team. Here's an article - around25.com/blog/startup-culture-... - where our CTO wrote some considerations on the topic, in case you're interested in how the whole thing is seen from a managerial point of view.