Went viral on Twitter since people liked this list, sharing since I hope it can be helpful to others too. There are no affiliate links in here, just a fun exercise I did last week
Reading is somewhat painful for people if it isn't entertaining. When I write things that are information dense at work, I try my best to condense it to be mindful of people's time. It has worked well for me
Often both. After I write something, it feels like it's a free benefit to also share it with others. I'm grateful the Hacker News community is so giving with feedback (eventhough I've gotten torn to shreds a few times haha)
That's a good point, I think Paul Graham has a similar line of thinking in the relationship between reading and writing. I linked this tweet in my article (https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1618747829975130115) but I've seen other places he's mentioned something similar as well.
I do a similar thing. Especially helpful for long-running investigations that are difficult to root cause. Documenting the current state of the investigation allows people to jump in easily and helps everyone tell what the current conclusions are.
Agreed, 100%. Eventhough most of the classes didn't matter for my career, getting the credential was worth it to help me get my foot in the door for interviews.
I loved CS181 ("Intro to Finite Theory Automata"). I don't remember using much from what I learned there in the last 5 years as a SWE but wow that was a fun class!