Developer blog and peer pressure

Peer pressure or a fake feeling?

I can't deny that when I started writing it was driven by peer-pressure of every (successful) engineer I've met seem to keep a diary or online blog. Would that mean I'm not good enough engineer?

Go with the wave, enjoy the tide

It was very hard at the beginning asking many questions like:

• What topics will I write about?
• I feel that I do not have anything new to add!
• What if I received bad feedback or worst, No Feedback at all!
• Which language do I use: Native language or English?
• In the age of YouTube, is writing even still relevant!

With all these questions in mind that won't get me anywhere; I thought I'll start doing it any way! At the end, what the worst thing that could ever happen, right?

Lose the training wheels

After many trials, and the painful process of selecting a topic I took like a week or something to write my first post. Later, I've learned to enjoy writing because of many reasons. In this short blog I'm going to share some.

Clear Thinking, simple writing or is it the other way around?

In a conversation, you have the words flow out of your mouth in context of the being spoken topic. In writing, it's hard like a nightmare. You do not receive immediate feedback from the audience and even if, how fast can you correct the coarse 🤷🏼‍. Writing seems like a training to start cleaning your thoughts and unclutter the mind. when you master that kind of asynchronous process and present content right, it reflects how far do you understand a topic.

Forget, search, remember and going around in circles

Coding is a practice, However sometimes I forget about topics I've practiced after a while. However, when I look back at words I've written in my own style I tend to remember faster than starting the Google search process again and again!

Audience ask; conversation builds-up, and we all learn more

Water-cooler chats are fun amd one tend to speak generally about some subject. On the other hand, when content is available online, well, it's different. You're exposed to many other experiences and in the Software industry that's actually needed. Our industry is still young and evolving. It's all about collective and cumulative practice that grows our industry.

Let me know If you think about blogging, or you've started already and share your learnings in the comments.