Going Public
Explore how publishing your writing helps develop a strong habit, gain valuable feedback, and grow your professional influence. Understand the importance of patience, focus on a single platform, and writing content that addresses readers' needs, helping you build a meaningful readership and improve your communication skills.
Publish your work
Eventually, you should try to publish your writing; having other people read your writing, correct your mistakes, and become fans of your work is half the benefit of writing at all! Andrej Karpathy, the Stanford superstar responsible for Tesla Autopilot, notes that he goes “the extra mile knowing others may scrutinize [his] published work… [so he works] harder to make things correct and consistent”.
“By writing on a blog post, I was held to higher account than I ever would be internally.”
You may be the sort of person that craves feedback for your work if you put it out there (most of us are). Make peace with the fact that everybody wanders around in the wilderness a long while before finding an audience. David Perell calls this the “four months of quiet”; you might put out a blog post a week for fifteen straight weeks and only get noticed on the sixteenth. For me, it was about a year. For Troy Hunt, it took years of blogging about everything under the sun before finding his niche as the “Security Guy.”
Focus on a single platform
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