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Ask HN：写博客以哪些意想不到的方式影响了你的职业？
Ask HN: In what unexpected ways has writing a blog affected your career?
导读
这是 Hacker News 上的一次问答：坚持写个人技术博客，给你的职业生涯带来了哪些意想不到的影响？提问者列出了写博客的常见理由（建知识库、以教促学、练笔、打造个人品牌），想听听真实回报。回答者给出的例子包括：博客直接带来工作 offer、有人拿博客文章做毕业论文、以及写博客反过来治好了写工作报告的焦虑；对写作者来说，这些第一手反馈说明写作是一种可以积累的"能力凭证"。
可以直接用的写作要点
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把结构化的分析写成博客文章，它能在面试或评审中替代"临场发挥"，成为证明你思考能力的有力证据。
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选自己真正感兴趣、有一定积累的题目写，写作动力和内容质量都会更高，也更容易被跨行业的人看到。
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公开写作能扩大职业网络：读者可能来自你从未涉足、也从未受训的行业。
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坚持写作会反过来降低日常工作写作（如报告）的焦虑、提高速度，可以把它当作长期的写作训练。
HN 评论精选
博客文章可以替代不擅长的临场面试，成为结构化思考和写作能力的实证。
我的现职就是靠博客拿到的。我不擅长面试，尤其怕那种限时一小时、现场读案例、给客户需求做技术设计的题目。被追问时我索性坦白：这种时间压力下的表现不代表真实工作能力，真实项目里我们有时间分析、做原型、反复迭代。面试官于是问我怎么证明自己有结构化思考和清晰写作的能力，我提到了几篇博客文章，他要了链接。几天后我就收到了 offer。后来一起喝酒，他告诉我正是那篇博客起了作用。
shrikant查看英文原文
I got my current job on the back of it! I don't interview particularly well (interviews are a lot of about first impressions, and I make a [ranging from poor to] indifferent first impression), and especially used to struggle with interview exercises that require you to think on your feet. For e.g., read this case study, present your analysis of the client's requirements, and draw up a technical design, all within about an hour. During my interview process for my current employer, I had come across one such exercise, and in the follow-up interview, was challenged on some of my poorly thought through responses. I was a bit too exhausted then to play games, and said outright that I struggle do that sort of thing well under time pressure, especially one that's not representative of a real-life work situation where we've usually got more time than an hour to analyse the situation, prototype various approaches, and eventually arrive at a refined solution after a few iterations of build-validate-redesign. The interviewer then basically wanted to know how I could prove that I was capable of structured thought, careful analysis, and reasonably cogent writing. At this point I spoke about a few blog posts that I'd done, and he wanted me to email links to them after the interview was done. A few days later I got a call saying that they were happy to extend me an offer. I met the above chap who interviewed me some time later over a few drinks, and he told me that it was the blog posts that had changed people's minds about hiring me. I've been happily employed there for nearly 5 years since, so I'd say it all worked out really well! (Although I did stop writing blog posts for mostly laziness-related reasons...)
博客会带来意想不到的读者和跨界影响，同时私下写作能治好工作写作的焦虑。
我发现有个学生第四年的荣誉毕业论文，整个课题只围绕我的一篇博客文章展开，而且几个月后我才偶然得知，学生和导师都没联系过我。另外，我虽然是政府部门工作多年的数学/IT人员，博客却主要引起私营部门图形计算领域（动画、游戏工作室、数字成像等）的关注，让我的工作在没受过正式训练的行业里也产生了些微小影响，也大大拓宽了我的职业人脉。还有一个变化：很多技术人跟我一样，明知道写作对中层管理和咨询很重要，却一直抗拒写报告，压力很大；但写了许多个月自己选的、自己懂的题目后，我写本职报告的信心和能力都明显提升，写得更快、焦虑少得多。
extremelearning查看英文原文
I found out that someone did their 4th year honours project focused solely on one of my blog posts: http://extremelearning.com.au/unreasonable-effectiveness-of-quasirandom-sequences/ This discovery was quite surreal as I only found out months later, because neither the student nor the lecturer contacted me at the time. Also, despite being a math/IT guy working for many years in government, my blog posts have mainly got the attention of graphical computing people in the private sector (eg animation, game studios, digital imaging, etc). This has meant that my work has made some (small) impact in industries beyond those I have worked in or been formally trained in. This has been a nice surprise. It has also markedly increased the breadth of my professional network to now include practitioners and experts from a diverse set of industries. Finally (like many technical people), although writing is a crucial skill in mid-level management roles as well as consultancy, for most of my career I have had a mental aversion to writing reports, and has been the cause of much work stress. However, after writing intermittently for many months on topics that I have personally chosen, and on topics that I have some knowledge on, I have found that this has had noticeable effects on both my confidence and capacity to write reports in my day job. I can now write reports faster -- and with considerably less anxiety. And thus, between all these points, I believe that I can genuinely attribute much of my recent career successes and opportunities to writing my blog. ;)
博客是获得出书机会的直接渠道。
我因此拿到了一份图书出版合同。之前我在 Show HN 上回答过一堆相关问题，有兴趣可以去看；有具体问题也欢迎邮件或推特找我。
jstanier查看英文原文
I got a book deal! I answered a whole bunch of questions over on a Show HN a while back if you're interested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22033129 I'm happy to answer any specific questions around this. My email's in my profile, or you can reach me on Twitter (@jstanier).
垂直社区里的持续写作能带来副业、人脉和职位机会，但也可以阶段性地停下来。
我在本国的嵌入式系统圈子里算小有名气，因此接到不少付费副业、朋友和职位邀请。那些 offer 我都没考虑，因为对当时的雇主很满意，而且它们在别的城市；不过我推荐了一个朋友过去，他至今还在那家公司（已经八年了）。我现在不写了（停更四年），对职业现状很满意，空闲时间更愿意做别的事。
aprdm查看英文原文
I was kind of "famous" in the embedded system community in my home country... I got a bunch of paid side projects from it, friends and job offers. I never even considered any of the job offers as I was happy with my employer and they were in other cities.. but.. I did get a friend to one of them and he is still in the company (it has been 8 years now). I don't blog anymore (has been 4 years :P ). I feel like I am super happy where I am with my career and would rather do other things in my free time.
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