I suck at design

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I find this blog post poorly written. Too informal to be informative, to me. Points made are overly general rather than insightful. Sounds like the author has interesting things to say (and relevant experience), but the presentation ruins it for me. E.g.:

"I guess I don't suck at design. I just suck in certain areas."

"It's impossible to be great at everything. You just can't do it all on your own."

Hey, I really appreciate your comment. Yeah. You're probably right. I've never written stuff like this before, so it's probably not going to be pretty. At least in the beginning. I'm learning here. My blog (right now, at least) is more about thinking things through. For myself. And learning. From comments like this!

Your blog gets to be whatever you want, but if you want one that is HN submission quality, one thing to consider given that you're just starting out is to have a (or a few) friends edit your writing before you post it. You'll notice that all of pg's essays have a "thanks to x,y,z" at the bottom.

Hmmm. Thanks... but why do I need someone to edit my stuff? I'm not scared of putting myself out there. Even with unfinished thoughts. I can handle the comments. How else is anybody going to learn and grow? What does HN submission quality mean? It says it right there in the news guidelines: "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity". Sounds about right to me. HN is not the NYT. I'm just a hacker trying to figure stuff out.

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