{"id":1143,"date":"2017-12-31T20:09:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-31T19:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/2017\/12\/31\/10-years-of-professional-blogging\/"},"modified":"2017-12-31T20:09:00","modified_gmt":"2017-12-31T19:09:00","slug":"10-years-of-professional-blogging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/10-years-of-professional-blogging\/","title":{"rendered":"10 years of professional blogging"},"content":{"rendered":"

 @andrewchen lessons learned\u2026 10 years of professional blogging – what I’ve learned at andrewchen<\/a><\/p>\n

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The lessons <\/strong><\/span>
Without further ado, here are a few opinions I\u2019ve developed up along the way:<\/span><\/div>\n
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  1. Titles are 80% of the work, but you write it as the very last thing. It has to be a compelling opinion or important learning<\/li>\n
  2. There\u2019s always room for high-quality thoughts\/opinions. Venn diagram of people w\/ knowledge and those we can communicate is tiny<\/li>\n
  3. Writing is the most scalable professional networking activity \u2013 stay home, don\u2019t go to events\/conferences, and just put ideas down<\/li>\n
  4. Think of your writing on the same timescale as your career. Write on a multi-decade timeframe. This means, don\u2019t just pub on Quora\/Medium<\/li>\n
  5. Focus on writing freq over anything else. Schedule it. Don\u2019t worry about building an immediate audience. Focus on the intrinsic.<\/li>\n
  6. To develop the habit, put a calendar reminder each Sunday for 2 hours. Forced myself to stare at a blank text box and put something down<\/li>\n
  7. Most of my writing comes from talking\/reading deciding I strongly agree or disagree. These opinions become titles. Titles become essays.<\/li>\n
  8. People are often obsessed with needing to write original ideas. Forget it. You\u2019re a journalist with a day job in the tech industry<\/li>\n
  9. An email subscriber is worth 100x twitter or LinkedIn followers or whatever other stuff is out there. An email = a real channel<\/li>\n
  10. I started writing while working at a VC. They asked, \u201cWhy give away ideas? That\u2019s your edge.\u201d Ironic that VCs blog\/tweet all day now \ud83d\ude09<\/li>\n
  11. Publishing ideas, learnings, opinions, for years & years is a great way to give. And you\u2019ll figure out how to capture value later<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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    So, maybe it is time to think about re-start. Maybe\u2026<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

     @andrewchen lessons learned\u2026 10 years of professional blogging – what I’ve learned at andrewchen The lessons Without further ado, here are a few opinions I\u2019ve developed up along the way: Titles are 80% of the work, but you write it as the very last thing. It has to be a compelling opinion or important learning There\u2019s always […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sin-categoria"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}