This is my first official Medium article and a personal mini milestone.

It’s been nearly 7 years since I’ve entered the workforce and this entire time I was wary about posting or sharing articles on LinkedIn or Twitter beyond professional career updates. Primary thoughts being:

• “Is it even valuable? Who would care enough to read it?”
• “It’s too cringey or cheesy”
• “What if people disagree?”

While these are all still valid, I’ve recently found other ideas that are far stronger:

• “Who might I reach or help?”
• “What new relationships could be built?”
• “What could I learn?”

Across my personal and professional life, I’ve gotten so much good advice and have had so many rich conversations. I’m sure you have too. In turn, we’ve also given advice to colleagues, mentees, family and friends.

Across human history, people have shared stories & knowledge to survive. So, it’s basically every human’s duty to continue doing just that.

The problem is that a lot of great knowledge has/is still ephemeral. Lost to the winds of moments and memory. Think about your own “aha” moments, they’re probably just saved in your head from a conversation. 1-on-1s are great but what if you could impact 1-on-1000? or 1-on-1,000,000?

Luckily you can. We live in the most prosperous time in human history. We’ve invented ways to connect all of human knowledge (the internet) to precisely reaching the people who care (algorithms/AI). When was the last time you Googled something for your job? What about clicking on restaurant reviews or a simple travel blog? Don’t even get me going about the TikTok algorithm and how well it can mass target content to specific people.

But no matter how far technology has come, some individual human still had to take time out of their day, choose to create that content, and make that information accessible.

People cannot perfectly predict how far reaching or impactful their knowledge will be, so let’s err on the side of sharing.

That’s the final argument that convinced me to start creating content and sharing info. From my own biased sphere of personal experience, I think I might just have a unique/valuable world view that may just resonate with someone. So I’ll be experimenting by taking a few extra minutes when I can to write down and synthesize blocks of information.

I may get it wrong because I’m always learning, but still going to share what’s stored inside my brain on the off chance it helps someone. Sharing this info will require some level of vulnerability, courage and time. But I’m an optimist/futurist and hope that the algorithms do their job to find you well.

Consider what your unique skills, knowledge, and point-of-view is on the world and start sharing. You never know who you might help.

Let the cringe begin!

I’ll be covering a variety of topics including tech, career development, product management, product design, entrepreneurship, startups, growing wealth, content creation, acting/theatre, underrepresented communities, civic duty, and more.

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