Write Short Blogposts

I encourage my colleagues to write blogposts more frequently. This is for a few reasons:

1. It informs your broader community what you’re up to, and allows that community to communicate back to you quickly.

   You communicating to the community fosters a sense of collaboration, openness, and trust. You gain collaborators, build momentum behind your work, and curate a body of knowledge that early adopters can consume to become experts quickly.

   Getting feedback from your community helps you to course-correct early in your work, and stops you from wasting time in inefficient courses of action.

   You can only work for a long time without communicating if you are either entirely confident in what you’re doing, or reckless, or both.

2. It increases your visibility, and so is good for your career.

   I have a great job. I find my work to be both

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