The only thing that has worked for me to overcome my crippling fear of writing shitty blogs on the Internet, is to write more shitty blog posts.
I write every day, publish every day, send them to my email list, every day.
90% of them are crap. Next year I hope 80% of them will be crap. And so on.
I have also noticed that when I send a particularly crappy one, I don’t get a lot of unsubscribe or hate, because people just wait for the next one. I’m guessing the 3500 people on my list generally want to receive them, or they would leave.
Most of them are crappy in particular ways: two personal, too broad, too vague, too long, Too $hort, two philosophical, two tactical… You get the idea.
Publishing often allows me to try a wide variety of approaches, lengths, styles, tones, topics, without fear that I am doing “wrong.“
If you want to connect, drop me a line at [email protected]. Always happy to support a fellow writer.
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Boy, you hit the nail on the head! I was really afraid folks would feel that I should know what they meant if I was a "real professional programmer", so it was tough for me to learn to push back. ;)
Second, the best thing you can do for your career is the hard work of turning your team of "mediocre programmers with broken culture" into something great. It's hard work, but it can be done, I promise. I write more about this as well at..
That sounds really smart. Even as an 11 person agency, we took on work which required 90% of our folks to participate, because we always wanted to do bigger things. Didn't really work out, as I may have mentioned. ;-)