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Comment by edw519 | Hacker News Reader

"A personal rails blog is required."

Not only would you be excluding 99% of the population, you'd be self selecting those who have the time to blog. If you want the best, you have to understand that they're already working. And quite possibly, too busy to blog.

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I agree except in the "too busy too blog". I'd say blogging helps you be concetrated on what you are working on. While writting about it you rethink your choices etc.

It's also not that time consuming, if you are not doing it every single second that is...

It's time consuming if you prefer it to be something more than gibberish.

i guess how much time is spend depends on the nature of the blogging someone is doing and if there are any good thoughts to communicate. When someone has an audience I'm sure then don't feel it's a waste of time.

Taking a lot of time and wasting time are not the same things.

All I'm saying is that blogging can take more time than it appears on the surface.

"I'd say blogging helps you be concetrated on what you are working on."

This makes no sense to me.

Working on what you're working on helps you concentrate on what you're working on.

if the posts are related to the things you are working on, then writing about them, during a break, it could help you not get distracted in case you did something else totally irrelevant.

OK. I guess that logic works.

It's still a bad idea to associate blog-writing skill with technical and even interpersonal skill. It's also a bad idea to make too many assumptions about the reason why someone might choose not to have a blog. A guy with a family might not want to risk getting the wrong sort of attention, for example.

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