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Discussion on: What are your best tips for writing technical blog posts?

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Ben Halpern

Write with one person or archetype in mind, don't write for everyone. It can really help you overcome paralysis.

I recall writing this post in about five minutes specifically as a response to a DM I thought others would appreciate

And it wound up getting a few thousand reads and being really well received.

It wasn't a technical post per se, but I think this logic applies in general.

@pbeekums touches on some of this well here:

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Shawn McElroy

Great points. Basically, MVP your blog post. We don't start by writing apps by creating what will be released in a year, we just make it work first, even if it's fragile. Then we [code|editorial] review and fix it.