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Just Tell Your Own Damn Story

Mikey Sanchez on June 26, 2019

A Mini-Manifesto As a sort of “Mini-Manifesto”, I’m reminding myself that everyone has a different, valid and valuable take on just abou...
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Jimmy Utterström • Edited

Well said. I've recently published two posts on here. The last one (dev.to/jimutt/boost-your-legacy-ap...) I was really close to throw away right after I finished writing it. Because of reasons like:

"No one will endure to read it because of my poor writing skills and inadequate English"

"What I'm writing about is probably extremely obvious to everyone already and does not provide any value."

But it got a lot more reactions than I was expecting and my tweet mentioning the post got a decent amount of likes and was retweeted by the official Svelte account as well. So even though I personally still think it's a poorly written post it has apparently provided value to people.

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Mikey Sanchez

Thanks, Jimmy!
It's pretty funny you talked about throwing away a post, because I have actually done that plenty of times ...

I'm so glad you took the time for that great post and for all the well deserved positive feedback you received.

Keep on writing. And we'll keep on reading!

Mikey