I want to write technically interesting posts like this too, but I don't know how.
My writing is mostly just tracking various internet posts to trace history. How do you create interesting posts based on personal experience like this?
well first you have personal experiences like that
or rather: you have personal experiences like whatever your experiences are like, not like theirs, and then you write about them if you think anyone else would also be interested.
lately I've been thinking about how something on reddit/hn/lobsters reminds me of an interesting moment from my career, and I write up a small reply about it, and that could conceivably also be a blog post if only I had a blog. and then I do nothing about it :) but that's definitely one way to blog; just take the effort to follow through on random inspirations like that.
another great route to follow is what julia evans does on her blog [<a href="https://jvns.ca/" rel="nofollow">https://jvns.ca/] - a lot of the posts are "hey, I learnt something new today, and here it is!". the key point is that there is no attempt at having every post be the same "weight", some of them are deep dives into a topic and some are just passing thoughts or howtos.
Most people I know keep "journals" (in various ways and shapes) when they're working on stuff. Producing something for public consumption becomes "compile my already existing stuff and writing into a presentable thing" rather than "start writing from zero".
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My writing is mostly just tracking various internet posts to trace history. How do you create interesting posts based on personal experience like this?
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or rather: you have personal experiences like whatever your experiences are like, not like theirs, and then you write about them if you think anyone else would also be interested.
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another great route to follow is what julia evans does on her blog [<a href="https://jvns.ca/" rel="nofollow">https://jvns.ca/] - a lot of the posts are "hey, I learnt something new today, and here it is!". the key point is that there is no attempt at having every post be the same "weight", some of them are deep dives into a topic and some are just passing thoughts or howtos.
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