The writing ability is partially reading a lot and more writing a lot; I'm at at least ~3.5 million published words and probably another 1.5 million or so behin

The writing ability is partially reading a lot and more writing a lot; I'm at at least ~3.5 million published words and probably another 1.5 million or so behind various firewalls. This is a lot more reps than most people, including most professional writers (somewhat surprisingly), get on writing. With regards to being able to learn about things, historically I've been weighted more towards "I read more on the Internet than almost anyone thinks is reasonable", but my job and market position have brought me into contact with people who are domain experts at various things, and when I'm planning to write about e.g. power generation I share initial thoughts with someone quite professionally familiar with that topic in Japan and e.g. they point me in the direction of virtual power plants as another subject to read about / include. From my point of view on things, my worry is erring in the direction of too explainer-y and too "smart generalist who overrates his understanding of things that he's got ~hours of time invested in." I aspire to routinely delight people who are legitimate experts adjacent to the areas I'm covering and help non-expert professionals quickly get the right set of mental models to inform their own work.