Like his friends, the veteran brother was once young. He wrote love letters in the rainy season, but often received no reply. At that time, I especially hoped that I could write well, just like the leading actor in novels and movies, a letter could capture the heart of a girl. Today, children can be soy sauce, the original love letter has been replaced by pay cards, valentine’s Day does not need to send gifts, directly send red envelopes discounted. The need to write love letters disappeared completely, which indirectly prevented my writing from improving, but over the years I discovered the value of writing in my career. If you don’t have any plans to improve your writing skills, here’s a guide for you:

  • Accumulate technical experience and improve communication efficiency

Work is to solve problems. Before solving problems, we need to learn knowledge and technology in related fields, and the process of solving problems will enrich our experience and skills. Whether it is knowledge or experience skills, they are valuable to partners who are facing similar problems, either within the team or in the technical community. When someone asks you a question, if you’ve written about accumulation, you don’t have to explain it over and over again. You can just send them a link to the article.

These knowledge and experience are deposited through writing, which is not only convenient for their follow-up reference, but also can be transmitted to others. After joining the work, veteran brother often wrote about technical accumulation, but he did not know that he was involved in the online community, and the article lacked readers. Without interactive feedback, it could not be improved, nor could it stimulate the internal driving force.

  • Construct knowledge system and enhance thinking cognition

Usually you think you know it, but you don’t. I’ve been interviewing and judging for promotions in recent years, and I’ve often come across candidates who can’t articulate what they’ve done, or who aren’t logical, relevant, or focused. This shows that the candidate’s grasp of knowledge is not thorough enough, but also in a state of half-knowledge.

If the other person has a similar professional background, be able to speak with depth and detail. If the other person is a beginner in the field, make it easy to understand. You can give to others only what is truly yours. As well as teaching, sharing is the teacher, it can force us to improve the grasp of knowledge. Compared with images, audio and video, writing is the most cost-effective way of output, which is flexible and accurate. Readers of different levels interact with us in the community, building knowledge system and improving thinking cognition through sharing.

In 2019, I published a series of articles (see the link at the end of the article) in several segments focused on by “IT veteran brother”, which were well received by readers. This process is also a process of building a knowledge system, which makes a tree grow thicker and thicker.

  • Build technical influence and personal brand

You can’t do anything without people, and the bigger you get, the more people you need. In addition to having your own time and energy at your disposal, you can also move people under your team, but most of them are partners who are not under your control and you must use your non-authority influence to move them. What is influence? It is the ability to change the thoughts and actions of others in a way that is acceptable to others. The reason is willing to accept, that is because you can stand on the other side of the position, to reason, move, the interests and losses clearly. He is willing to change his thoughts and actions on the basis of his desire to avoid misfortune.

Writing is a great tool for influence. We can export values or values. Actively participate in the community and share their valuable cognitive experience with partners in need, which is an excellent way for us technical people to create non-authority influence. In order to ensure the value of the content to be shared, you should not share topics too broad, after all, you can not do everything well. For example, brother veteran focuses on career planning, building skills and influence building. These are the fields I have accumulated the most, and my past experience in filling holes can help readers. As I output more value in these directions, my personal brand will become clearer and more valuable.

  • Broaden the route of development and build new competitiveness

Veteran Brother was a development engineer when he started his career. At that time, he mainly relied on design and coding. Later, he became an architect, and the proportion of design and coding decreased. Writing more ideas will be clear, organized and logical have been enhanced, oral expression is more and more confident. Centering on the basic skills of writing, I also developed new abilities such as public speaking, training and consulting. Writing can accumulate material for speech training, book publishing, etc., and really make words meaningful.

If you’re in a low-skill app development job, as you get older, you’re losing out to newcomers, which means you’re not a good value from an employer’s point of view. To address this crisis, we must transform and upgrade, using new skills to do more valuable work. Skills such as writing, speaking, training and consulting are universal soft skills that can be applied to all types of jobs. There is unlimited room for challenge. As we get older and more experienced, we will become more and more popular.

  • Incubate a second career to increase after-sleep income

A second career can carry our interests and hobbies, which can be incubated in spare time and developed as a career. Now the entire Internet infrastructure is already very perfect, including trading, payment, logistics and so on, as long as the precise positioning, find your own niche, we can by the public, the technical community and network channel such as classroom will share his knowledge to the entire network needs, to help others is valuable, to help the more the greater the value, Realize value through knowledge payment and increase the proportion of after-sleep income.

Writing, speech, training and consulting skills can be used for a second job, in my spare time on GitChat has written more than 20 paid article, among the geek did live technology sharing, part-time lecturer at the university of corporate training, occasionally do pay q&a or consultancy, which paid articles and online courses can be repeated for sale, Equivalent to a time can be unlimited sales. After-sleep income can also count as a capital gain, just as a landlord collects rent. The value of writing still has many, but the improvement of writing ability can not be completed overnight. The veteran brother also thought he knew everything at first, but he couldn’t write it out. Gradually, he could write it out, but others couldn’t understand it, and then he was recognized and liked by readers. This process requires learning a lot of knowledge and skills.

The sooner you share this matter, the better. The establishment of influence and personal brand requires investment of time and energy. Join the technical community as soon as possible, share valuable knowledge and experience with those who need it, establish influence in the industry, expand the circle of contacts, and the road of life will be wider and more wonderful!

Pay attention to “IT veteran brother”, Empower procedural life! The following are the 2019 reviews of Veteran elder Brother in the direction of career planning, skill improvement, influence building, etc. If there is no link to the article, please go to the official account of 2019 review articles collection:

Introduction to Architect series

  • What exactly is architecture? Do you know?
  • What are the architectures and how do I choose?
  • What do architects do? Do you know?
  • What skills do you need to be an architect?
  • How to deal with upstream and downstream customers?
  • How to transition from developer to Architect?
  • An introduction to architecture that programmers must understand
  • Is there a shortcut from programmer to architect?
  • A programmer who stands in the way of becoming an architect
  • Very hard, why am I still in the same place?
  • What can save a programmer’s hairline?


Job-hopping job-hunting series

  • Programmers seek to contain the secrets of the guide
  • Big company or small company, which would you choose?
  • Jump, jump or not jump, how to jump?
  • 2C or 2B, what does that have to do with getting a job?
  • Keep that in mind and don’t worry about getting a good job!
  • The three most important things in your career


[Layoff knowledge series]

  • Fancy downsizing goes a long way, you know?
  • Encounter redundancy, how to spend psychological crisis?
  • How to Find a good job in winter?
  • Midlife crisis, the 35-year-old rule, go to hell!
  • How does a coder break the 35-year-old spell


[Influence building series]

  • How to build influence on the road to stop?
  • Knowledge pay, let me make a small sum of money!
  • How does the training teach encounter beautiful woman to smash field?
  • How to be a full-time four-wheel drive trainer?
  • What do influencers teach us about clients
  • Should technical people master marketing ability?
  • How to progress from speaker to facilitator?
  • How to create a relaxed training atmosphere?


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