Lesson 9 of 14 Ways to Acquire
Reliability Engineering Knowledge
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In the meantime, start or continue writing. One idea is to outline the book you want to write. Then write each short section as a blog post. It’s a draft, and you can build an audience and gather feedback.
If you’d like to try a guest post on a blog, let me know. I’ve three blogs that almost come out weekly. I’d gladly consider a guest post (they often do much better than my posts, which is great.) About 500 words is perfect. Let’s get your work published.
If you have a longer work that you want published, and if it’s reliability related, again, let’s talk. I’ve the tools and know how to get your book published. I’m a publisher and focusing on works for the reliability community.
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Like teaching and get-it-from-yourself approaches combined, writing let’s you capture what you know.
Writing allows you to explore a subject, ponder, question, theorize, and discuss. Writing a daily journal can be helpful. If nothing else, the daily writing practice helps you describe ideas and concepts important to you.
You Already Write
As a reliability professional you will write reliability plans, recommendations, requests for resources, test plans, and reports. Writing articles, white papers, blog posts, or a book is like teaching, only the delivery is dependent on written material. Writing to explain or influence provides a way for you to consider what you know and need to know about a subject. It helps you to focus your reading and encourages more experiments.
Writing also slows you down to see the logic, information, and ideas and allows you to review and reorganize. Writing exposes what you know and do not know.
Write Regularly
Writing does take discipline and practice. Use basic English, clear active voice, and the language of your reader (which might just be you, or your peers, or another audience). Write plainly to remove the barriers to understanding both for yourself and your readers.
Pay attention the questions that come up as you write. Keeping a notepad handy to list questions can be helpful. Writing on one topic often sparks ideas or other topics of interest. Capturing the idea helps you to avoid the distraction from the writing task at hand. Keep notes on other topics to write (and learn) about and review these occasionally when considering new writing projects.
Writing an online blog does two things:
- Regularly writing on a topic of interest allows you to explore and learn the topic in detail.
- It helps you build and demonstrate mastery of the topic.
If considering a blog one idea is to outline a book on a topic, then write blog articles for each section. The blog articles do not have to be in order, which allows you to write on the specific topic of interest. Yet before long you will have a first draft of a book on the topic. You will have mastered the topic by “writing the book.”
Next Week: Listen
Do you truly listen? It’s not common. Next week let’s talk about how much you can learn by actively listening to your peers, colleagues, friends, and adversaries.
In the meantime, start or continue writing. One idea is to outline the book you want to write. Then write each short section as a blog post. It’s a draft, and you can build an audience and gather feedback.
If you’d like to try a guest post on a blog, let me know. I’ve three blogs that almost come out weekly. I’d gladly consider a guest post (they often do much better than my posts, which is great.) About 500 words is perfect. Let’s get your work published.
If you have a longer work that you want published, and if it’s reliability related, again, let’s talk. I’ve the tools and know how to get your book published. I’m a publisher and focusing on works for the reliability community.
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