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> Blogging is waste of time.

It certainly is a waste of time for improving your engineering skills, it's a myth. But it isn't for PR, which is very important these days even to get somewhere in software engineering, not to mention for pushing any kind of product or attracting other engineers to hire.



... being able to explain things concisely and accurately is a skill that helps any engineer.


You are either Engineer or not. Writing blog post will have less of effect on your engineering skills than writing code.


I was able to step up to a major tech company because they noticed my blog posts, Stack Overflow answers and conference talks.

That nearly doubled my income.


But it doesn't matter how great of an engineer you are if nobody knows about you.




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