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@feralmoan, I think this is one of those cases were its sort of hard to compare aggregates since your return on investment is personal to you. In some cases my blog posts have literally taking man weeks to create because they are based on efforts for customers. The code, data, and experience end up getting written down then at some point I might spend 10 minutes to a few hours writing a blog post. Some of those very same blog posts, that have consumed massive amounts of time, have been more or less ignored. Some have ended up being very popular. So what I would say is ignore your average investment time and focus on your goals. What are you goals for blogging? Is it just expressing yourself, communicating to others, sharing your hard won experience, driving a brand (maybe brand you), or just storing information for latter retrieval. Depending on what your goal you will find that you time investments will be very different. For example if you’re really want to show the world how deep your understanding of certain technologies are you might need to spend significant time writing rich and deep content. If your just sharing news articles of interest with a brief bit of insight maybe just 10 minutes a day.

@trosen42,

Thats awesome. Would you please share that post?

@greenyoda,

Good point. First draft of this post actually talked about constantly curating your forward facing blog, github, or whatever. I ended up taking it out because this blog post was originally just for internal consumption within Twin Technologies. I often encourage people to try to highlight the things on their blog, github, or etc that advances their goals the most effectively. That might be your latest project, your most popular project, or the thing you are most passionate about. Having your Hello World code and the like in your GitHub along with code that no one cares about from 10 years ago is probably not a very good idea. In those cases either get rid of that stuff or make a spate personal blog or repo where you archive that old stuff. That being said though I often find people still searching out articles, code snippets, and content I wrote 8 or even 10 years ago (my personal record is a blog post from 2000 that people still look for). So it’s not a bad idea to curate your content and reorganize it but then again you never know what might be important 10 years from now.