Q&A: How do you decide what to write? - The Intercom Blog

On Writing #3

Periodically I like to gather various observations about writing, and share my perspective.

The Ultimate Guide to Writing

Think better. Grow your audience. Accelerate your career.

Writing Handbook: How to source writing ideas

Learn how to write an introduction paragraph. This guide explains the writing process for introductions, as well as the process for deciding what to write about.

Blogging Made Easy

Bring your Bluesky, Blacksky, or similar handle to start writing.

Paragraph

Where writers share, grow, and get paid — one post at a time.

Micro.blog

Post short thoughts or long essays, share photos, all on your own blog. Micro.blog makes it easy, and provides a friendly community where you can share and engage with others.

The most important thing when working with LLMs

Blog post: The most important thing when working with LLMs by Steve Klabnik

Q&A: Can non-technical product managers be successful? - The Intercom Blog

Being a great product manager isn't about past experience. It comes down to understanding customer problems and how teams work, and great communication.

A blogging style guide | Robert Heaton

Here are 39 ways to make your blog more entertaining to read and more pleasurable to write.

The Press Release Is Dead — Use This Instead – Mike Butcher

I’m QUITE TIRED of dealing with MILLIONS of tech entrepreneurs (these days there are a HELL of a lot of you) and (some) PR people who have ZERO clue how to pitch me/TechCrunch/the media. Their pitches are long-winded and rambling. They ask if they could ‘send some more information’. Listen, I have no idea if it’s interesting or not until you send it! Many just ask me out to lunch or coffee. (Thanks, but I prefer hanging out with my *actual friends*). Even worse, they haven’t read this post or seen my presentation on how to deal with tech media. [2021 update: This is a basic outline for super-early startups. If you want something for Post Series A / later stage startups go here].

afterword

Writing this handbook has been a process of not over-thinking it. In deciding to do it post-by-post, day-by-day, I practiced sharing as I went, posting to a ...

Medium vs. Own Blog: What Actually Drives SaaS Traffic

Where to publish something has becoming a difficult decision for a lot of businesses. You read so many stories about using various channels to distribute content and grow traffic, it’s hard to know what does and doesn’t work. Medium, in particular, has become a major player in the world of startup content, but is it really that great?

Simon Willison on Blogging

Link to: https://writethatblog.substack.com/p/simon-willison-on-technical-blogging