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Career Capital

Explore how developing a habit of public technical writing helps you build career capital as a software engineer. Understand strategies for publishing on top industry platforms, maintaining a personal blog, and open sourcing knowledge to establish expertise, gain recognition, and grow professionally.

Publish your work under the top industry

Most developers don’t write in public - a lot of their writing just sits on company servers. Smart developers write so that they don’t go home with nothing. They understand that the vast majority of developer careers outlast their tenure at their current firm, and the easiest way to establish expertise and build a reputation in the industry is to write under their own names.

A good way to write for your career is to publish under top industry blogs and forums. Anyone that pays you to write will have rigorous editing standards, and you can practice your technical ...