- 30 Nov, 2025 *
You can just share one daily hyperlink. Equipped with that ability, Simon’s My approach to running a link blog and his Hacker News replies to John’s Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be reveal next steps:
I posted this on Bluesky last night:
I wish people would post more links to interesting things
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- 30 Nov, 2025 *
You can just share one daily hyperlink. Equipped with that ability, Simon’s My approach to running a link blog and his Hacker News replies to John’s Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be reveal next steps:
I posted this on Bluesky last night:
I wish people would post more links to interesting things
I feel like Twitter and LinkedIn and Instagram and TikTok have pushed a lot of people out of the habit of doing that, by penalizing shared links in the various “algorithms”
Bluesky doesn’t have that misfeature, thankfully!
(In my ideal world everyone would get their own link blog too, but sharing links on Bluesky and Mastodon is almost as good)
Sharing interesting links with commentary is a low effort, high value way to contribute to internet life at large.
If you blog I think it’s really important to develop a habit of linking to other people’s blogs. That’s how blog discovery used to work back in the 200xs and it can still work effectively today.
No not a blog roll - more a link blog or a habit of linking back to pieces you found relevant or interesting.
Go ahead: socialize others’ “pieces you found relevant or interesting” enough on whatever blogs, platforms, and websites you can. You might just find the people, things, and opportunities you have been yearning for all along.
Speaking of opportunities, excerpts from Simon’s other Hacker News reply could serve as tips for Ava’s job market websites suck:
2. It can be a big boost in job hunting. As a hiring manager two of the most important questions I have about a potential candidate are: Can they code? Can they communicate well? If a candidate has a blog with just two articles on it that hasn’t been updated in five years that’s still a big boost over candidates with nothing like that at all. In a competitive market that could be the boost you need to make it from the resume review to the first round.
If you DO start to get readers things get even more valuable. I’ve been blogging since 2002 and most of the opportunities in my career came from people I met via blogging. Today I get invited to all sorts of interesting events because I have a prominent blog covering stuff relating to AI and LLMs.
How far can you push your career by emulating Simon’s long game, replacing “AI and LLMs” with your passions?
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