| Depends what your medium is, and if it’s close to your work. I post on my blog, youtube, twitter, have a podcast, etc. in my field and I’d say… Pros: - super helpful to get a job - great to create an audience if, like me, you need it later to promote a project. my book (real world cryptography) wouldn’t have had so much success if I hadn’t started blogging and tweeting years before even starting writing - great for “quick thoughts and planting seeds”. You have no idea how much of your thoughts and learnings can actually help people. All the small realizations and things you learn can easily be small blogposts or tweets or podcast eps - meeting people. If people know you its easier to get to talk to some people, or get invited in working groups or conferences or … - get accepted at conferences, or for teaching a course, or for writing a book, etc. - people listen to you. It’s easy to have your voice be drowned in the noise, but when you have a platform people are listening to what you have to say and that’s a great feeling - some jobs might like the fact that you can be an “influencer” - it forces you to analyze how you’re expressing yourself and communicating. And this is the best way to improve at these things (and they are extremely valuable skills at work and outside of work) - people can correct you. When you write wrong things people will often correct you and you’ll learn a lot more than if you had kept your learnings all to yourself Cons: - it’s easy to make enemies. The more you share the more you’ll offend. And in these days and age careful if you tweet while under the influence ;) you can get cancelled - it can get depressing. The whole 24/7 tweeting scene. - it’s not rewarding for years of work. A blog can only take off after blogging for many many years, and consistently |