Write that blog post - a podcast by Kent C. Dodds

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Hello friends So recently somebody asked on the KCD discord whether theyshould bother writing a blog post because the topic had already been
covered a thousand times by other people who may have more experience inwhatever. And I shared with them a blog post that I wrote quite a while
back called solidifying your understanding or something like that.And in it I mentioned a an interesting phenomena that I'm sure you've
noticed sometimes you will be walking down the street and you'll see
there's a McDonald's I really like a burger or whatever but then right.Next
to it, you'll see a burger king. And then like we wonder sometimes like why
would Burger King put a building here if there's a McDonald's right next
door like they already solved the I need a burger problem why why wouldthey bother doing that?
And the reason is because people's taste are different and people enjoy the
the burgers, you know, or whatever quizzing you want to use as an analogyhere. They enjoy that differently and they,And they have a different take
on that But even if you don't have a different take even if it's exactly
the same there's still value in that.
There's a street intersection down in Texas somewhere that has three
Starbucks on it. So they're missing one Starbucks to get all four corners
three Starbucks, I think one's in a Barnes&Noble and others in some sort
of internet cafe or something and then there's an actual Starbucks but you
you can get Starbucks on any three of those corners and and and it worksand it's fine and people enjoy it and they you know, clearly there'sThere's
business for that and in the same way there the internet is so vast andyour reach is different from my reach is different from his research is
different from her reach, whatever we're all over in just the way that we
can reach people, especially if you know a language other than English ifthat's the case then you can reach people.
I simply can't. So definitely right that blog post to create that video
make that content because the other side of this is that the,Contentcreation isn't just for the people consuming the content In fact it's often
especially the beginning it's more for the person who is creating the
content.You learn a great deal by creating content at educational content of some
kind explaining things. You can teach yourself in the future. You can goreference it later, but also the process of creating that content is going
to make you understand it better. So, yes, I strongly advise that eventhough that everybody's already written about this or whatever go ahead and
write about it yourself.You'll learn more and you'll reach more people thanAre already being
reached. Hope that's helpful. Have a good day.

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