| Who wants to read "standard tech posts?" Every day we see somebody on HN ask why their posts to their blog are being rejected. Usually (1) this person is ONLY posting links to their own blog and (2) the blog is beyond bad, like the engineering manager who wrote a blog post to the effect that "I used to have anxiety and then I started meditating two minutes a day" If you don't have anything unique to say why do you expect to get an audience for free? Alternately, how hard does this guy have to work to promote his blog https://www.righto.com/ You'd better believe people are reloading their RSS feed every minute hoping to be the first to submit the next post on that blog to HN for... 200+ instant karma like that. When Ken got started he didn't have a big readership. He was doing run-of-the-mill Arduino projects but he did it consistently and did it with heart, then he taught himself to decode the secrets of microchips and took us all along for the ride. It pains me to hear people who are impressed that they got 75 reads on their article on Medium. Back in the day it would have taken 75,000 reads to impress me. If you're going to make a deal with the devil you'd better get a good price. |