10 tips I wish I knew when I started creating content 7 years ago 1. Original is more important than unique.

Plagiarism is not OK, but it’s perfectly OK to write about something that’s been done before.

As long as you put your own spin on it and truly make it original.

There is value in your individual point of view!

10 things I wish I’d learned sooner after being a developer for 10 years 1. "Soft skills" are tough to learn.

It’s easier to teach someone a new language, like Python, than to change their behaviour, like the way they communicate. Yet, we consider communication a “soft skill”.

Focus on soft skills, they’re the differentiator in most job interviews.

💡On average, it takes 66 days to form a new habit. There's 65 left until 2021, so how about we start early on those New Year Resolutions?

I'll start: I'm trying to publish content consistently, so I'll try to write a minimum of 100 words a day for the remainder of the year. In the spirit of open accountability, day 1 went ok, wrote 277 words. It could have been better, I could have done it earlier than 10:30 PM.

🥑Why would you be jealous of your Developer Advocate? Cause of the glamorous #devrellife? Let me take you on a little journey about a day in the life of a Developer Avocado👇 😴You spent the night before in a plane, and the morning queuing for 4 hours to get a visa on arrival to Thailand.

😪You woke up at 6 today, and showered keeping one eye open at a time because that's the most you could do