Write/Record a tutorial
High Impact, Low Effort
Benefits:
Personal Branding, Skills, Network, Wisdom
Overview:
Explaining a concept to others is a great way to solidify your learning and it also improves your writing/speaking skills. If you share your learning with others via social media or blog or YouTube, this can significantly help you build your personal brand and authority in the subject. Apart from all these visible benefits, the process of creating tutorial leads to increased self-awareness and insights about the subject.
To an employer/client, this makes you stand out. If you are able to garner a decent traffic on your tutorials, it can also generate good side income over time. Irrespective of the results, it is a recommended approach to improve your skills & personal branding.
Success stories:
Amit Agarwal shared a tonnes of tutorials on his blog Digital Inspiration and became India's most popular blogger
Hitesh Choudhary has made a great personal brand as well as generated income by sharing tutorials on his youtube channel(500k+ subscribers)
There are multiple other
Get started:
Choose a topic that you learned recently
Create a tutorial on the subject
Share it on your social media channels
Moving to next level:
Do it more often e.g. move from publishing one tutorial once in a while to every month and then every week...
Improve your choice of topic e.g. figure out the topics that audience respond to most or a topic that has not been covered well on the internet
Improve your style and delivery
Engage with people who comment on your posts
FAQ & resources:
What tools & platform can I use to write down my posts?
Notion, Wordpress, Medium, Google docs, Evernote, Google Keep, Simplenote, your own blog, GitHub README, etc.Where can I share my tutorial?
Your Twitter, LinkedIn, Reddit communities, Youtube, Hackernews, blog, email newsletter, on popular publication as a guest writer(little tough to execute but not impossible), etc.Where do I get a good affordable microphone for recording?
Amazon
Current opportunities:
Paid work opportunities for technical writing can be found on major job boards. For part-time gigs in technical writing, check out upwork, freelancer, etc.
Earn reputation and personal branding by writing a tutorial for these reputed tech publications