In this post, I share 8 principles I believe in:
- Less is more
- Start with the solution or the ask
- Show the facts, with examples
- Always quantify
- Include links and references
- Explain why it matters
- Ask feedback from one person
- Sleep on it
As engineers and developers, we often focus heavily on technical skills while neglecting the importance of clear, compelling writing. But the reality is, our ability to communicate effectively can have a major impact on our careers.
I would suggest writing blog posts about topics that you’re familiar with. Make sure you write the posts such that also people not too familiar with the material can follow it. Share your posts, and ask for questions and feedback.
I have been thinking about starting a blog.
Any recommendations for self-hosted blogging? The setup itself might be worthy of a post :)
I use Astro, because it allows me to write posts in Markdown and publish as a static website, though there are certainly other solutions that allow you to achieve the same thing. I just bundle it up in an Nginx Docker image and host it on Fly.io. If you want you can look at my setup here, though beware it isn’t documented (even the README is already out of date): https://github.com/arendjr/phebe