> Both of these let you share your knowledge and experience with low effort.
Where I have knowledge and experience, why would I care to write about it? I already have the knowledge and experience, and therefore am no longer interested in it. Writing about something that is not interesting might be something you give in to in exchange for copious sums of money, but certainly not for the sake of entertainment.
Writing is for things you don't know much about, so that the "someone said something wrong on the internet!" crowd will work tirelessly to improve your understanding.
Heh, why the lucky stiff said that he taught "by fated appointment only" and I feel the same. Sharing knowledge is a lot of energy. I like sharing but my energy is limited.
I'm a great teacher on the topics I know, but I'd much rather teach an intern something in a moment of need rather than write a blog post or make a youtube video. I'm glad there are people who blog and make videos too.
At work, some junior frontend engineers were tasked with making major changes to our site color palette with very incomplete guidance from brand designers. I taught them about color spaces beyond RGB, luminance and perceptually uniform color, and palette design and structure with a few examples. I'm no expert and I shouldn't be teaching those topics on the internet, but the project got better results for it, and I'm happy there's more FE engineers in the world with better knowledge about color.
Where I have knowledge and experience, why would I care to write about it? I already have the knowledge and experience, and therefore am no longer interested in it. Writing about something that is not interesting might be something you give in to in exchange for copious sums of money, but certainly not for the sake of entertainment.
Writing is for things you don't know much about, so that the "someone said something wrong on the internet!" crowd will work tirelessly to improve your understanding.