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There is something really cool about seeing other people adopt a practice of writing TIL-style posts and coming to the same realizations and conclusions that I did with mine.

TILs are great learning resources and reference resources:

I think this new section of the blog might be more for myself than anything, now when I forget the link to Cryptographic Right Answers I can hopefully look it up on the TIL page.

In Simon Willison's 1 Year TIL Retrospective, he points to how they reframe writing and publishing something:

The thing I like most about TILs is that they drop the barrier to publishing something online to almost nothing... The bar for a TIL is literally “did I just learn something?”—they effectively act as a public notebook.

and on the value of always having a learning mindset:

They also reflect my values as a software engineer. The thing I love most about this career is that the opportunities to learn new things never reduce—there will always be new sub-disciplines to explore, and I aspire to learn something new every single working day.

It was fun to read through both of these posts having just myself reflected on A Decade of TILs.