Own your content
In a world where everything is rented, we are left with the only sensible option—owning our content
I don’t know if you noticed, but we slowly moved from ownership model, to rental model. We rent our music, our movies, our software.
But the “ownership→rental” revolution did not happen only on the consumer side—it also happened on the producer side. Many people, who produce content, host their content on 3rd-party platforms, whose main purpose is to benefit from your content.
While it’s not a total lose-win situation—because you do get the benefits of the platforms—I believe that those benefits are not significant enough for you to not own your content.
I explain deeply why you should own your content, and how to achieve ownership, in my latest blog post Own your content.
Owning your content is important, and I’m a big believer in it. But knowing how to produce quality content—is the first step.
If you are a software engineer, you probably have to write technical documents. And chances are, you don’t really like it, or know how to do it well. This is why I wrote my recent e-book: Technical Writing for Software Engineers - A Handbook.
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