Hey, Hero

February 15, 2025

Hey, Hero.

So I realized I don't really know how to write for an audience. Or at least, not how to do it and feel like myself. I know how to write to myself, but that's such a narrow use-case, it hasn't really helped me figure out how to write for others.

But I was talking to one of my student's mom about how I try to be the kind of teacher to him that I wish I'd had. (as cliche as that feels, and as much as that's not usually how I think about it for myself. It's still true.) And a video I ran into yesterday advised making content of things you've just learned, or new approaches that would've helped something click for you sooner if you'd seen it then. And what if I use that. What if I write like I'm talking to past me or people like me?

It's still narrow, but it's still a much more broad use-case. Cuz other people need the same things I needed to hear. (And hey, if the exercise can help me stop being so damn mean to myself, all the better! I've already seen that get better the longer I've been an instructor. The more I exercise those frameworks, the better they'll be, and the easier to utilize--instead of my old bad habits of beating myself up.)