Fact-checking when blogging
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An observation of lately: whenever I blog about software or technologies I’m unfamiliar with (“learning in the open”), I tend to be more diligent than usual (i.e. than if I were doing it privately, only for myself).
Because I like to link to documentation and to add references as much as possible, I tend to adopt a mindset of verifying that my assumptions and the overall mental model of how things work are true.
IMHO this is a good trait to adopt, which I attribute exclusively to the nature of public blogging.