[waboremo]

Yes I have a brief one, sorry that it's not specifically related to Readlang!

You kind of stopped blogging as much when you joined Duolingo, what would you say were the biggest factors why? I'm assuming Duolingo weren't super restrictive on what you could post so that might not be the big reason, but I could be wrong!

[steveridout]

Good question! There was a lot to do and I was kept busy just with internal communication, so didn't feel the urge to share externally so much. Also, getting outside attention didn't feel as important given my role at the company compared to when I was alone running my own project.

I actually remember asking them how restrictive they would be when it comes to sharing when I joined and they said they weren't as secretive as Apple, but that they weren't completely open about everything either. If I had had the urge to post anything I would have run it past people before publishing details about what our team was working on, and it would have probably been fine. But in the end, like I said, I was always busy and blogging fell by the wayside. (I was never a naturally prolific blogger anyway)

[waboremo]

Thank you for answering!

The internal/external rift is so interesting and perfectly reasonable. Hard to spend time self editing after an exhausting day, and guess that's where places like Twitter really shined. Yet I wish that gap could be bridged somehow, it feels like many great posts with overlooked details are left unwritten because of the lack of external validation combined with internal hurdles.

Meandering now, but your blogs are enjoyable reads and that's the most envious quality I have of writers!