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I was never more than a middling coder, but I can write. I've built a pretty great and remunerative career on being able to understand technical things well en

I was never more than a middling coder, but I can write. I've built a pretty great and remunerative career on being able to understand technical things well enough to write about them for a less technical audience.

Ididntdothis 6y ago
It took me a while to appreciate that. A long time ago i noticed that a lot of famous bloggers didn’t really write about groundbreaking things but relatively trivial stuff. This annoyed me for a long time until i realized that being able to write this stuff is a great skill by itself. I think I am a decent developer and have done interesting things but I am having trouble communicating my stuff. My impact could be much more if I could write about it in a compelling way.