The bar for experimenting on things is low. Give it a shot! Once you start experimenting with posts you’ll be in a better position to decide whether you want to continue.
If anonymity is the concern, you can always use a full pseudonym. I suspect pretty strongly that it isn’t actually a big deal for future employers though. I am a programmer and in my experience interviewing, interviewers spend very little effort actually digging into this stuff. I personally have a long history of blog posts, YouTube videos, a podcast, and two startups that I founded, plus a bunch of stuff on various internet forums, but very, very few interviewers have actually looked at any of it. If anything it’s just skimming a blog post or two. Academia is different of course, and isn’t something I’m familiar with, but my guess is that it is relatively similar.
The bar for experimenting on things is low. Give it a shot! Once you start experimenting with posts you’ll be in a better position to decide whether you want to continue.
If anonymity is the concern, you can always use a full pseudonym. I suspect pretty strongly that it isn’t actually a big deal for future employers though. I am a programmer and in my experience interviewing, interviewers spend very little effort actually digging into this stuff. I personally have a long history of blog posts, YouTube videos, a podcast, and two startups that I founded, plus a bunch of stuff on various internet forums, but very, very few interviewers have actually looked at any of it. If anything it’s just skimming a blog post or two. Academia is different of course, and isn’t something I’m familiar with, but my guess is that it is relatively similar.