Re:Ask HN: Really afraid to start my own technical blog, any...
by AnimalMuppet on Tuesday March 07, 2017 @01:11PM
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I am the King of the Internet. I hereby give you my official royal permission to go ahead and blog, even though you may write something wrong.
Oh, wait, I'm not the King of the Internet. Nobody is. There's nobody to give you permission or approval... except you. Go ahead and give yourself that permission - permission to write, and even permission to be wrong.
The thing is, everyone who writes on the internet has been wrong. Everyone. You aren't going to be this horrible exception, the one person who said one thing wrong on an otherwise-perfect internet. So go ahead. Write. Make mistakes.
But, as others have said, learn. When you discover that you have made a mistake, say so. Correct it, in public, because the mistake was in public. And don't feel horrible when you do. Instead, feel smarter than you were when you made the mistake.
You'll make mistakes. Do it anyway. Forgive yourself for the mistakes, learn, teach your readers, and move on.
Oh, wait, I'm not the King of the Internet. Nobody is. There's nobody to give you permission or approval... except you. Go ahead and give yourself that permission - permission to write, and even permission to be wrong.
The thing is, everyone who writes on the internet has been wrong. Everyone. You aren't going to be this horrible exception, the one person who said one thing wrong on an otherwise-perfect internet. So go ahead. Write. Make mistakes.
But, as others have said, learn. When you discover that you have made a mistake, say so. Correct it, in public, because the mistake was in public. And don't feel horrible when you do. Instead, feel smarter than you were when you made the mistake.
You'll make mistakes. Do it anyway. Forgive yourself for the mistakes, learn, teach your readers, and move on.