I’m a programmer, not a writer

Hi, I have a very direct, blunt style of writing.

My name is Stephen and I’m a Devop working at REA with about 7 years experience writing Python.

Communication is difficult. I don’t think I’m alone in this but it’s certainly something I’ve battled with over the years. Nothing is more daunting to me than a “clear communication skills” requirement in a job posting.

I even nearly failed TEE English! My final year of highschool I got 20% in my English exam in the first semester. That was a disheartening point in time. The good news is I learnt from that failure and put in a lot of effort to actually pass (barely!) in the second semester.

The great news is form isn’t as important as intent. This is why we can have such internet phenomena as doge (much internet, so hilarious) and dolan. It’s why we can have conversations over twitter and facebook comments.

Writing a blog post is daunting, especially if there is a chance many people will read it. All kinds of insecurities rise to the surface. Especially in the face of the great internet force of grammar Nazis.

I’m not quite at the point of my own public blog (where would the content come from?!) but I have an internal company blog I write to, I started using Twitter (that’s a micro blog right?) and I’m writing this.

Step 1: Put out content
Step 2: ???
Step 3: Profit

Communication is hard, but that shouldn’t stop us.