Blogging for 4 Years
Four years ago, I published my first blog post. It was a simple proof that $C - C = [0, 1]$ where $C$ is the Cantor set. Since then I have published over a dozen posts about mostly mathematics and programming, but also the book’s I’ve read and economics. Blogging has been my most consistent1 side project or hobby in the past 4 years.
I started blogging because many of the AI researchers I looked up to had blogs. Blogging was a way to, dare I say, promote myself. Most of my early posts were related to the AI research I was doing while still an undergraduate. I switched from other themes to my current theme al-folio, designed for academics. I am not sure if this strategy ever worked. I still haven’t setup any analytics to track blog viewership. Very quickly, my blog topics diversified. Blogging became an excuse to learn things well, as I would need to write about them. Blogging is also a way to publish my thoughts and opinions, not just factual information. I continue to blog for these reasons, but most of all, I blog because I find it fun.
I encourage anyone reading to consider blogging.
- It’s fun.
- It can be as easy as you want. It’s a myth that blog posts need to be perfect works of art and science. Dispelling this myth, giving myself room for the subpar, had made blogging more enjoyable.
- It’s a good method to practice writing which is a critical skill for any while collar worker. Even if you are a software engineer, you will need to master writing.
- You have a unique perspective which others may benefit from.
As for me, I have tried posting once every 2 months, 6 times a year, for the past 4 years. The schedule has helped me be prolific at the cost of laborious nights finishing a piece I have lost interest in. Going forward, I don’t want to be attached to any schedule, to keep blogging from becoming a chore. I may not post for many months or even a year. This doesn’t mean I will eventually stop posting. I don’t plan on giving up blogging any time soon.
My Favorite Posts That I Wrote
- https://georgerpu.github.io/blog/2023/economic-possiblities-for-ourselves/
- https://georgerpu.github.io/blog/2022/federated-learning-beyond/
- https://georgerpu.github.io/blog/2020/crdt/
- https://georgerpu.github.io/blog/2021/floc/
- https://georgerpu.github.io/blog/2019/the-cantor-set-minus-itself/
My Favorite Blogs
Academics (Excluding AI)
Computer Scientists
- https://jxyzabc.blogspot.com
- https://maheshba.bitbucket.io/blog/
- https://martin.kleppmann.com/archive.html
Mathematicians
Other Scientists
Political Scientists
Artificial Intelligence
Companies/Groups
- https://ai.meta.com/blog/?page=1
- https://bair.berkeley.edu/blog
- https://blog.research.google
- http://www.offconvex.org/
- https://openai.com/blog/
- https://thegradient.pub/
Individuals
- https://danieltakeshi.github.io
- https://eugeneyan.com/writing/
- https://karpathy.github.io
- https://lilianweng.github.io
- https://sebastianraschka.com
Software Engineering
- https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com
- https://brooker.co.za/blog/
- https://www.jeremykun.com/
- https://jvns.ca
- https://mhlakhani.com
- https://ntietz.com/blog/
- https://substack.com/@thecaringtechie
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The other contender would be weight lifting, but the pandemic and busy schedules and lethargy has frequently disrupted it. ↩
If you found this useful, please cite this as:
Pu, George (Sep 2023). Blogging for 4 Years. https://georgerpu.github.io.
or as a BibTeX entry:
@article{pu2023blogging-for-4-years,
title = {Blogging for 4 Years},
author = {Pu, George},
year = {2023},
month = {Sep},
url = {https://georgerpu.github.io/blog/2023/blogging-4-years/}
}
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