I've spent years giving career advice in 1:1s. I never shared any of it publicly. Not because I didn't think it was valuable but because I was scared of what people would think. Would former colleagues roll their eyes? Would people think I was being preachy? Would I look like every other person on LinkedIn trying to build a "personal brand"?
That fear kept me quiet for a long time.
But here's what changed: I realised I was limiting my impact to the handful of people I happened to work with directly. The conversations I've had with mentees about career pivots, about navigating technical leadership, about the mistakes I made so they don't have to. Those shouldn't be locked behind the accident of who ended up on my team. So I'm trying something. Treating this like any good agile practitioner would: try it, learn from it, iterate.
I don't know if this will work. I don't know if anyone will find it useful. But I know that staying silent because I'm worried about judgement isn't a good enough reason anymore.
Let's see where this goes.