Upgrade to Pro
— share decks privately, control downloads, hide ads and more …
Speaker Deck
Features
Speaker Deck
PRO
Sign in
Sign up for free
Search
Search
Blogging myths
Search
Julia Evans
December 10, 2020
3.5k
0
Share
Blogging myths
Julia Evans
December 10, 2020
More Decks by Julia Evans
See All by Julia Evans
Learning DNS in 10 years
jvns
0
230
High Reliability Infrastructure migrations
jvns
10
13k
Building a Ruby profiler
jvns
2
420
Build impossible programs
jvns
23
94k
So you want to be a wizard
jvns
25
25k
Learning systems programming with Rust
jvns
14
8.2k
Systems programming is for everyone
jvns
12
3.2k
How to read your computer's mind
jvns
6
800
Why I ❤ Rust
jvns
50
54k
Featured
See All Featured
How to Build an AI Search Optimization Roadmap - Criteria and Steps to Take #SEOIRL
aleyda
1
2k
Groundhog Day: Seeking Process in Gaming for Health
codingconduct
0
140
Distributed Sagas: A Protocol for Coordinating Microservices
caitiem20
333
22k
Discover your Explorer Soul
emna__ayadi
2
1.1k
CSS Pre-Processors: Stylus, Less & Sass
bermonpainter
360
30k
svc-hook: hooking system calls on ARM64 by binary rewriting
retrage
2
210
Producing Creativity
orderedlist
PRO
348
40k
The Illustrated Guide to Node.js - THAT Conference 2024
reverentgeek
1
330
brightonSEO & MeasureFest 2025 - Christian Goodrich - Winning strategies for Black Friday CRO & PPC
cargoodrich
3
680
SERP Conf. Vienna - Web Accessibility: Optimizing for Inclusivity and SEO
sarafernandez
2
1.4k
Game over? The fight for quality and originality in the time of robots
wayneb77
1
160
Avoiding the “Bad Training, Faster” Trap in the Age of AI
tmiket
0
120
Transcript
blogging myths demo EIEoYEEoh
me or 7 years of blogging 500 posts
myths you need to be original you need to be
an expert posts should be 100 correct you need to explain every concept page views matter
myth you need I l l l l l l
to be ringing
reality nobody has read the entire Internet
reality you only need to show people something new totem
i eh is O O Y wows TY Tf jogger
myth you need to be an expert in the topic
reality you just need to know I 2 things the
reader doesn't
how to get a core dump for a Seg fault
on Linux
Myth posts need to be 100 correct I
reality just get someone to check for Very Wrong Facts
you're fine
the correctness tradeoff a ta me P sublish always be
fast totally
myth good bloggers never write bad posts
reality people ignore unclear writing 0 0 shared 0 A
o o o ro fades into obscurity 0 O
8 Too
myth you need to explain every concept
advanced post about networking i
beginner uh I don't understand this advanced stuff advanced I'm
bored why person are you explaining network packet
writing for everyone actually means writing for nobody
pick 1 person write for them to your friend yourself
2 years ago
myth page views matter peek
Reality comments page views
0 N on How to teach taisukemino yourself hard things
Hey, @b0rk. Just wanted to let you know that this post really helped me to improve my skill of understanding a complex concept. Thanks! :)
myths you need to be original you need to be
an expert posts should be 100 correct you need to explain every concept page views matter
writing review
None
None
None
None
None
None