[HPBEggo]

I find this article to be spot on, especially for professionals in very technical careers.

Specifically, the bit about improving your writing skills is very pertinent. Most technical professionals would benefit quite a bit by learning how to communicate with those outside of their profession, i.e. a large portion of the people who might read your blog.

I, for one, keep writing a blog with essentially no readers for more or less this reason.

[ilaksh]

I've had blogs before, and having no readers is a little bit depressing for me. It REALLY doesn't seem worthwhile when no one is reading it. The few times I managed to get a link to stick on reddit's r/programming, the blog posts were mostly ignored, then buried and on one I was flamed because people didn't understand it.

[HPBEggo]

Having no readers is a bit of an over-statement. I have some friends who read it occasionally and ask about specific topics, and a few random people who probably glance at it once or twice a week.

Point is, blog's are useful even if only a few people are reading it, because it's just important as a tool for you as for other people.

[kd0amg]

Might I recommend adding the link to your HN profile's "about" section? It may be of interest to some folks here (at least, I don't think I've been able to go very long without seeing people here talk about economics).