> What made it worth it for you?

Too many to list such as jobs, recognition in the community, but the best ones are some sort of a personal satisfaction without the need to say anything aloud. The other two things I will always remember are (i) my cousin once accompanied me to a conference where I spoke, and after seeing the people lined/gathered around to talk, “What the heck are you, what do you do!” and (ii) recently, my daughter, “Papa, I searched you on Google and you are kinda Internet-famous, you are everything if I search your name.”

> What kinds of posts actually worked (for learning, career, network, opportunities)?

Two ways to look at it, (i) I don't care, I will just write or (ii) focus on a topic/community/vertical and keep writing about it, even if someone has written about it, write your own opinion. Watch for topic upticks in that vertical/interest and write about it, even if it means adding something to the ones that is already written. @simonw does it best https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/22/link-blog/

> Any practical format that lowers the bar (length, cadence, themes)?

Make it open-ended. When you want and inspired, keep writing perhaps a long-form article or just stay short like @kepano https://stephango.com/style

> If you were starting today, what would you do differently?

Stay simple, minimal, comments optional/avoid. Separate content from your styles. Keep all of your content which you can just walk-out from a platform/service/framework if need be. https://brajeshwar.com/2021/brajeshwar.com-2021/