So…I haven’t published a blog post for a long time. If you only follow me on this platform, you might assume that I’ve stopped writing.
In fact, writing now dominates my life more than ever. After faffing about the tech industry for a few years, trying product management, project management, UX design, UX writing, and software engineering, I started a technical writing job at Google in 2019.
The stable position at a tech giant, plus the forced quietude of the pandemic, gave me space to remember my dream.
I’ve wanted to be an author for years. I wrote silly detective stories as a child and took creative writing classes in high school and college. But after receiving a few bad critiques on my experimental short stories in college, I caved to self-doubt and turned to non-fiction for solace. I was content to build my writing career on hard facts rather than creative expression.
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