You SHOULD write!

Last week's teahour.fm ushered in two big content platform's entrepreneur guest, Jane book's creation makes the person bristling and Logdown founder Xdite. On the show, the Xdite shared their ideas about content platforms. The last five or six years have been social networks, and the outbreak of social applications has also brought people into the era of fragmentation, especially the 140-word limit, allowing people to quickly produce content, quickly consume content, and fewer people are willing to sink into the mind and record some text. Our life in fact less a lot of wonderful, so very happy to see this year's content platform again rise and return, Medium, Jianshu, Logdown, Ghost, and so on, every day to see the recommendations of the article, I believe there will be moved when.

The program asked Xdite what the output of the year was, and was directly alarmed. Before doing Logdown Xdite has reached the year to write 400000 words, an average of 1100 words a day, do logdown after a lot of, for an entrepreneur, technology developers rather than writers, I have to say is a very alarming number, of course, under this output, The rewards are staggering, with 300,000 of PV being brought to Logdown by an article written earlier.

37signals has mentioned in its best-selling book, "Getting Real," that when recruiting, always choose a better candidate, whether it is a designer, programmer, operator, sales or other. People who write well must also be more thoughtful and communicative, so they can better deal with code and people.

Most programmers hate writing documents, especially those that don't use them, and then bother to record their thoughts and experiences. We also talk about this in Teahour, understand but very recommended developers write more words, adhere to the personal growth of writing to the benefits of you can not be measured. I myself in the team, each function release, is to ask the responsible person directly to write publish blog, not only will realize, or can give users to understand the cause and consequences.

believe that every writing person has experience, when you write to explain a thing, you think you know things may not really know. Writing is not just a simple record, but a need for readers to follow your ideas and understand what you want to say. Therefore, in order to express your opinion very clearly, writing must be a knowledge system of the re-learning and thoughts of the comb, so as to help readers understand. And this process is your real harvest.

Writing is also a very effective way to build and spread your personal branding. Never underestimate the influence and communication power of words, and there will always be people who benefit from your words. As you share more and more thoughts and knowledge, people will learn about your personality and how you behave. Whether or not someone is going to hate you, believe there will be more people like you, and they will know what you're doing because of your content, like a book you're writing, a product you're doing, and so on. And these things will also have the same unique personality because of your brand.

Programmers in the open source world to Iven, in the world of thought. Whether it is teahour or my blog article, in this more than a year has brought me a lot of good friends, some even in life can not have any intersection of friends. People's growth is to constantly expand their own circle and the exchange of reciprocity, contact with such a group of very thoughtful people, from these friends learn a lot of things, is my biggest harvest.

While sharing knowledge, it may also save you a lot of time, for example, maybe one of the solutions you Google to is a piece of paper you wrote before. Last year, Teahour asked Xdite how to find the writing theme behind such high productivity. Xdite explained that there are many people repeatedly asked her questions, she felt tired, do not want to spend time to answer one by one, wrote it out to ask the questioner to read directly, so that the reader can be more systematic understanding, but also to save a lot of time.

So, you should write!

"I don't have time to write."

"I don't know what to write."

"I have nothing worthwhile to write" Don't make excuses for yourself, relax, we are not writers to write a novel, we are only the author to write something, and as mentioned above, writing can let us comb the whole knowledge system, this is enough. Medium's slogan I feel very good, "everyone's stories and ideas", we are receiving new information and new ideas every day, why not record it as a word? Don't start out demanding perfection, always remember that bad start is half the success. I think every draft I write is rotten, but every change makes me feel a little bit better than the previous one. At the end of the release, it looks good, at least he is satisfied.

Careful analysis, the whole process of writing is actually similar to making products. An article needs to undergo a process of planning, research, preliminary drafts, reviews, revisions, and announcements. Planning requires knowing who the reader is, what their expectations are, and determining the subject matter. Research and compare similar articles, comb the whole idea. Generally after this stage, I have a basic brain map. The first draft is written in strict accordance with the needs of the brain map. After listening to friends feedback, many revisions, the final release. The process of finishing a lean writing.

Writing is a habit that is well worth cultivating. This skill is practiced, there is no shortcut, only non-stop practice. Times are returning, and people are returning. Should get started!