Why share experiences or Why write articles on Habr?

    I have no illusions about the fact that “all people are brothers” and all “must share” - no one owes anything to anyone. I'm allergic to altruism. I believe that it is better to deal with an honest huckster than with a highly spiritual altruist who wants to make all of humanity happy - and such troubles bring the most. You can sell your experience, or you can "share" with someone. Ancient Chinese wisdom says: "Do not show your mind if you do not want to be used." It would seem, why share just like that?



    When I started blogging on a hub, I searched for content and info feeds in various articles, then molested engineers, etc. Then I realized what I needed to write myself. But I'm not an IT specialist at all, but a journalist, and I work for an IT company? But, as practice has shown, I have something to share. Then I wondered: why? What is the benefit to me if I tell about my achievements, about my experience?

    That's what I thought of when answering the question of the subject, which gives a "simple sharing" of thoughts:

    1. Liberation of the head. Before you set out your experience in writing, you seem to already know everything, and so everything is clear, and all this is cooked in the head, and cooked ... and cooked ... As a result, there is no place, there is no room for new thoughts. You won’t understand this until you write the article. You really understand that there is more free space in your head, it has become somehow easier to breathe. After all, your experience, even if it is very good, is still a burden.

    2. Structuring of accumulated experience. Knowledge must, no, must be conceptual. What does it mean? All experience can be reduced to a structure - having this structure, you do not need to carry the entire experience of some skill in your head. Now, instead of a cluttered pantry, your knowledge becomes a toolbox. And taking a tool, you take whole tons of accumulated, own, or someone else's experience - invisible to an inexperienced look. So, articles or reports on the topic - the very first way to restore order in the pantry of your own experience.

    3. A new vision. More precisely - a new vision of the nuances that used to be hidden somewhere in the back streets of the brain. And after you wrote an article, you see that without this writing, you would never get to these nuances in your life. The head, after all, would be busy digesting / chewing / carrying experience.

    4. A new vision of the problem. In no article is it possible to state ALL the points of the question, a book is needed for this, and it may also not be enough. But having outlined something, you understand that yes, you have outlined at least just the essence, the short structure itself, albeit in the form of a short note, but there are still so many side, seemingly not important, sides of the problem (enough for a whole book) that you understand again: you’re not so smart - you need to look more broadly at the problem in order to have at least a chance to see something more. And the further searches begin and, accordingly, the further growth of professionalism.

    Writing Articles Help Conceptual Knowledge



    Since I consider this point to be very important, once again I will focus on conceptual knowledge, and its difference from knowledge in itself.

    Conceptual knowledge always consists of a structure, a conscious structure of concepts, when all faces: logical, associative, experienced merge into one structure with clear boundaries. This is not a self-sufficient structure, it is not knowledge in itself - sterile knowledge, "uncomplicated" experience. This is knowledge that you can rely on, which you can defend in front of someone. Such knowledge helps and develop conceptual thinking.

    If knowledge is not definitely specific (but not blurry), and experience is always concrete, a concept, then this is rubbish. When you write an article or read a report, whether you want it or not, you will have to define your experience, express it in new concepts, structures, ideas. And this is the most valuable thing in writing articles where you “share” your experience. And already after the written article you understand that you didn’t have to huddle before, greedy with your precious experience, and after the written article you see that if you didn’t write, the experience would turn into rubbish, and then into garbage.

    So “write articles, Shura, they are golden ...”

    Valuable UPD from comments:

    shanker writes:

    My motives for writing articles are somewhat different:

    1. A professional blog on a thematic resource gives advantages in a professional sense: such a blog shows others what you are worth. Sometimes in the literal sense: such a blog is a great addition to the resume.
    2. One head is good, and 2 is better. The comments often provide food for thought or new information on the topic of a written article
    3. Acquaintance and networking with new people from the professional industry - never in life is superfluous

    Garg0twrites: In my opinion, everything is simple. For you, as a journalist, obviously used to assessing the value of information in kilograms, but not for an IT employee, an important nuance of Habr's specificity is not entirely obvious: not only the article itself is valuable, but also the discussion in the comments, which led to it. Due to the nature of the community concentrated here, comments can often be no less (and sometimes more) useful and interesting than the article itself. The author not only shares information, but also receives high-quality feedback, an exchange of experience takes place, the problem is examined from different angles and this is beneficial to all participants in the process.

    Just comment: I do not measure, and never measured the text with kilograms.



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