Example scenario: a failed experiment
Example scenario: you spend a weekend on an approach that does not work. Writing up why it failed — the assumption that broke, the measurement that revealed it — takes an hour and is more valuable to readers than another success story, because failures are underreported and everyone else's roadmap is full of the same traps.
This is an illustrative scenario, not a description of a specific published post.
Visibility has a real cost
Public work invites correction, which is the point, but it also invites drive-by criticism of half-finished ideas. The trade-off is accepting some noise in exchange for the corrections that actually improve your thinking. Publishing less frequently but more completely filters most of the noise.
A short sharing checklist
Publish artifacts that would help your past self; include what did not work; separate facts from opinions explicitly; avoid numbers you cannot verify; and revisit old posts when your understanding changes instead of deleting them silently.