# How (some) good corporate engineering blogs are written

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## What Jamie wrote

We took a run at doing this and struggled to get momentum around it. I share the observations made here that many (most?) of these are not all that great. 

> At a high-level, the compelling engineering blogs had processes that shared the following properties:
> 
> - Easy approval process, not many approvals necessary
> - Few or no non-engineering approvals required
> - Implicit or explicit fast SLO on approvals
> - Approval/editing process mainly makes posts more compelling to engineers
> - Direct, high-level (co-founder, C-level, or VP-level) support for keeping blog process lightweight

It’s great to see some common practices for the good ones. ✍️

## Facts

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