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dewey • yesterday at 4:32 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

How would you define the limit above which it's appropriate to share your findings on a given topic on your blog?


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antonyt • yesterday at 4:40 PM

Not OP, but it's the "as if I were an expert" part that rankles. It's fine to share your experiments and learning projects, but frame them as such. Some writers present their imperfect weekend experiments as if they're doing us a favor by giving out their genius for free.

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jrochkind1 • yesterday at 6:10 PM

it's always appropriate to share, but share your actual findings, don't imply or assume they are generalized maxims representing more than what it looked like to one guy doing one thing one time without a lot of experience.

One way to make this even better is to include your questions about things you don't know. "I wonder if that means X or Y, perhaps one way to tell would be investigating it with method Z, whihc I haven't had time to do yet, I wonder if anyone else has or knows."