Head of Product at Temporal. Previously lead architect and low-level systems programmer for scale out SaaS offering. Game engine developer, ML engineering expert. DMs open on Twitter.
Sorry for opening a sub discussion... but wouldn’t you say you’d be on your best, enjoying the most and being at the top of your creativity writing about what you want?
Don't apologize, these are the exact conversations I wanted to see! As for your question, obviously there is some stuff I write because I feel very passionately about it, but not every post can fall intro that category. There will always be a portion of my work that I just write because I enjoy it, don't worry about that.
Sometimes it correlates with the audience and many times it doesn’t.. I’ve been bashed on reddit more than once for stating an opinion or writing about something uninteresting to many.. but I loved it, and felt I was expressing myself rather than other people’s desires.
I agree, but it's a nuanced topic. It's almost always a bad idea to write something you don't care about, and instead write it based on the projected expectations of the audience. That doesn't mean you can't ask the "audience" and then factor that information into the decision about what you will write.
IMHO the magic happens when the two merge, and your creativity meets what people wants and enjoy reading.
Agree
I enjoy reading you and please keep writing, no matter what!
That's awesome to hear, thanks for taking the time to leave such a genuine and insightful response.
So if we're making suggestions I'd very much like to read and hear about work culture. How other companies/teams experience and practice it.
A great example is Valve's classic "leaked" new employee booklet.
I wonder about other's ideas/concepts because I'm trying to create something like that on our own team. Something that would be publically known and standardized, so internal team members would be proud and outsiders would be jealous (kidding... kidding... they'd want to join us of course!)
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Don't apologize, these are the exact conversations I wanted to see! As for your question, obviously there is some stuff I write because I feel very passionately about it, but not every post can fall intro that category. There will always be a portion of my work that I just write because I enjoy it, don't worry about that.
I agree, but it's a nuanced topic. It's almost always a bad idea to write something you don't care about, and instead write it based on the projected expectations of the audience. That doesn't mean you can't ask the "audience" and then factor that information into the decision about what you will write.
Agree
That's awesome to hear, thanks for taking the time to leave such a genuine and insightful response.
I accept that :)
So if we're making suggestions I'd very much like to read and hear about work culture. How other companies/teams experience and practice it.
A great example is Valve's classic "leaked" new employee booklet.
I wonder about other's ideas/concepts because I'm trying to create something like that on our own team. Something that would be publically known and standardized, so internal team members would be proud and outsiders would be jealous (kidding... kidding... they'd want to join us of course!)