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You Only Know What You Make

You Only Know What You Make

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Steve Huynh
Oct 18, 2023
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I launched my YouTube channel in January 2021. Like many people worldwide, I was consuming a significant amount of online content during the pandemic. I consider myself something of a YouTube connoisseur. I believe many analytical types share this trait; we assume we understand the details, techniques, and principles well enough to consider ourselves competent judges in any subject that captures our interest. I was confident in my knowledge to the point where I felt I could try my hand at content creation.

To say I underestimated the challenge would be an understatement.

Having taste is vastly different from truly knowing a subject. If someone claimed to have opinions about JavaScript without ever writing a line of code, their views would be immediately discounted. It doesn't matter how much literature they've read or how many videos they've watched.

Yet, there seems to be a segment of the population that believes success in one domain guarantees swift success in another, completely unre…

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