Make money doing the work you believe in
I started writing about ML systems because I wanted to organize my own thinking.
No audience strategy. No growth plan. Just me putting into words what I was learning at work every week.
Two years later I have 42k+ followers on LinkedIn and 13k newsletter subscribers here on Substack!
People reach out for collaborations, companies reach out about roles, and my understanding of my own domain is 10x sharper than before I started writing.
Writing forces clarity. If you can't explain a system in a post, you don't understand it as well as you think.
Every post I write makes me a better engineer, not just a better writer.
The best part: it compounds. Post 1 gets 12 likes. Post 50 gets shared by people you've never met.
Post 100 opens doors you didn't know existed.
If you're an engineer and you're not writing publicly yet, you're leaving compounding returns on the table.