As a general personal observation, tech folks seem to be more comfortable listing skills than talking about the their professional value-add. I thought this was

As a general personal observation, tech folks seem to be more comfortable listing skills than talking about the their professional value-add. I thought this was true even twenty years ago when there was a lot less of the self-promotion. You can definitely see this in the hiring threads. I guess partly it's because they can - you can list languages and frameworks, where other professions might not have something so clear-cut. But equally, it makes it very hard to distinguish between any number of people who list, say javascript, React, Vue etc. etc. as skills. So I think it's a proper skill, talking about what you do and what you know, and targeting that to people for whom this adds value (and can therefore generate new career opportunities). For sure I know it had taken me a long time to learn, and in the back of my mind I always have that version of me who didn't know how to do this.