[cyberdrunk]

> Why are there fewer non-tech personal blogs? (athletes', architects')

Tech is unique in a couple of ways:

1. It's a very young industry, so there are no set ways to do many things yet, which invites people to experiment and then write about it.

2. Unlike many other industries, in tech you can experiment using just your at-home equipment.

3. Older industries arguably expect their practitioners to be more mature, so you're less likely to see a structural engineer writing about his weird ideas on how to build support beams... Whereas in tech if you blog, even if it's BS, it is still welcomed.

4. There's plenty of money in tech and the blog can help you get to the highest paying roles. (whereas in for example architecture it's much more about just seniority and years on the job).

[kernelsoe]

I agree that tech has projects and ideas you could do yourself @home.

Now my question is ... why local structural engineers or other professionals rarely write a blog or an essay sharing their knowledge and experience or just normal expressive posts like you would see on mainstream social media?

[cyberdrunk]

I don't think there's that much innovation in those fields (esp. on individual contributor level), so there's considerably less to write about. The old professions are standardized to a large degree and they're unlike tech where new approaches to literally everything are invented (or, should I say, unleashed upon the world) regularly.