There are way too many people on the Internet giving advice and calling themselves experts. How do I know this? Well, I have done quite a bit in my life and accomplished many things in many human endeavors and I try to stay up on the latest and greatest technologies in all the industries I have participated in.
I often find in trade journals and in online articles folks that pretend to be experts in their field and yet I have never heard of them before. In fact they have never done anything in the actual reality of the marketplace and yet they claim to be experts because they are writers. A writer is not an expert, they may be an expert, but merely being a writer does not make one an expert in a human endeavor other than writing.
Someone who is accomplished something in the marketplace in an industry could be said to be an expert in their industry for they have achieved something. We have too many linear thinking folks giving advice and calling themselves experts who were nothing more than impostors and posers. This has concerned me for a very long time and I am troubled and bothered by the fakery and trickery of these self-promoting, self-aggrandizing and underachieved individuals.
If you are an expert in your field then people know who you are and what you have done. If you choose to write about what you have done then your advice and articles or books can be considered relevant. Otherwise you are wasting everyone’s time and hurting people with bad advice and charging too much for that advice. Giving out false information is not the same is giving advice. Please consider this in 2006.
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