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I worked at a startup where the CEO wanted each technical contributor to write a blog post per month, every month.

I wrote two internal memos and then quit. Exactly zero got made public. Imagine thinking this is a good use of time for a startup right after closing Series A.

One per IC per month.

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Funny: I was forced to write a blog post every month by my CEO, about a decade ago. I did it for about a year, and some of these went to No1 on HN (for example this one [1]). Just searched for it, and although the company is turpor, the blog is still alive. Looking back it gives me an insight on my opinions at the time.

https://incubaid.wordpress.com/tag/functional-programming/

The best setup I’ve seen is a rotating support engineer where everyone takes a week at a time. Unless there’s an emergency, support is typically less than 40% typical load.

You’d use that 60% to write a blog post and fix any bugs you felt inclined to. Obviously, if support duties were heavy, you wouldn’t write a blog post

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