Writing Isn't Something That Only Writers Do

“Focus on learning one thing.” I heard that from a coworker at my first job. At that time, he was the IT/network guy. Years before that, he was a certified Java engineer or something. I was new at this coding thing. I was trying to learn about everything at once. It was back in 2010ish. I was reading The Clean Code, learning Python, using C# at...

For the first time after over 10 years of non-stop work, in 2024 I suddenly found myself with lots of free time. Thanks to the layoff in the tech industry and to fully recover from burnout, I decided to take a mini-retirement. All of a sudden, I had 8 extra hours free on my day. No more meetings, 1-on-1s, estimation sessions, or any other meeting...

Too much of anything is bad. Except for writing. Here are 10 more ideas to write or blog more—I say “10 more” because I’ve already shared 2 ideas to write more: #1. Write shorter posts. Instead of writing a 1,000 or 2,000-word post, write multiple 200 or 500-word posts and make them a series. #2. If you write a listicle (“10 tips to …” or “10...

Blogging is dead. At least, that’s what almost everybody claims. And it’s been dead for years. But in spite of that belief, we still find (random and famous) people writing on their blogs: Seth Godin, Herbert Lui, and me (shameless plug). With blogs, we have control but lose distribution In our blogs, we aren’t at the mercy of third-party...

“Money has already been made, we just have to get out and search for it.” That’s a common phrase in my hometown. It means money rewards action. And like I learned from hearing and watching James Altucher, nobody wakes up and thinks about giving money to any of us. We have to search for it. That applies to content ideas too. Replace “money” with...