What to Blog About
What to blog about
Today I Learned
A TIL—Today I Learned—is the most liberating form of content I know of.
Write about your projects
Today I Learned
How I Built a Learning Machine
Writing daily TIL posts became a habit that I could stick with.
Unlike blog posts that often felt daunting to start or got left unfinished, I could carve 10 to 15 minutes out of my work day to solidify and document something I had picked up. There were a few factors that were key to developing this as a habit:
- It was tightly constrained. I limited posts to 200 words or less. They needed to be very focused to fit within that word limit.
- It took a small amount of time. It always took me 10 to 15 minutes which always felt manageable, even on a busy day.
- I did it on the clock. Part of my job as software developer and consultant is to learn. There is simply too much to know, so learning has to happen on the job. By making this part of my work routine, it was easy to do everyday.
Writing daily TIL posts accelerated my learning and overall trajectory as a developer.