SDR Era Reflection #2: I Like Teaching, and Writing is How I Do It
Published: December 12, 2025 • 5 min read
As the title suggests, this is another SDR Era reflection post, and I'm going to talk about teaching.
From a very early age, I've known that I enjoy teaching. I even wrote about teaching Mathematics in high school and how I attempted to start a YouTube channel off of that right after graduating high school.
Now, I think throughout the hustle of university days, I forgot how much I enjoyed teaching. Between juggling a full-time school load, part-time jobs, trying to stay healthy and active, running a side hustle, and everything else... I never really tapped into this hobby. Maybe a few times here and there, but definitely not as exhaustively as I could have.
Writing: The Greatest Gift of This Era
Writing is the greatest gift of this Era to me. I've hinted at it several times in past blog posts that I didn't realize how much I would enjoy writing, but it has become one of my favorite activities.
I think I can confidently say that everything I do or have done on this website is because I wanted to write about it.
I build apps to write about them. I perform experiments to write about them, mostly as case studies. I endured going through hard phases like Beginner's Hell in DaVinci Resolve so I could write about it.
Writing gave me the courage to decide to move to Montreal... I know it will be hard, especially in the beginning, but I feel excited because I know I will write about it.
Writing gives me the courage to take risks, even risks like the one of deciding to pause my job search and focus on building a solid proof of work and becoming the person who attracts opportunities. Now have I achieved that? I guess I'll know by next week and beyond.
However, when I write, I feel the urge to optimize my life for the most interesting story because I want to tell an interesting story when I write. This urge allows me to take calculated risks.
The Real Reason I Love Writing
Lately, I'm starting to realize the real reason why I enjoy writing. It's simple actually.
Writing gives me the opportunity to teach. It's the lowest barrier method of sharing my ideas and hopefully helping someone else out there. Video creation is another way of doing this, but it's so much easier with writing.
Feeling Smart and Dumb Simultaneously
I've mentioned in previous blog posts that when I write, I experience two feelings at the same time: that of being smart and being dumb simultaneously.
The "dumb" feeling: Because writing is a teaching experience for me, I feel the need to dig deeper, way beyond the surface level, because I want my writing to be clear and easy to understand. Now have I achieved this? I'm not sure. Feedback, which I will receive soon, will tell.
However, this process alone makes me feel dumb. Yes, you heard that right.
When I start to write about something I'm so sure I understand, I realize that no, I don't understand it well enough because I probe deeper when I write. Deep into the territory that reveals endless knowledge that I am yet to acquire. But it's also exciting because I'm confident that I will never run out of topics to write about.
The "smart" feeling: Because of how deep I dig when I write, writing is also when I do my best thinking. There's no room for distractions when I write. Hence, it's my ultimate focus tool.
When I write, I can only do the things that support whatever I'm writing about, whether it be researching, or testing a tool, or testing a tip that I'm just learning about.
The 200-Piece Theory
You see, I'm really looking forward to getting better at French. If I could express myself seamlessly in another language, imagine the endless possibilities that would open my brain up to.
But again, even while I enjoy writing, I think I need to improve the skill itself. I've heard someone say once that you don't get good at writing until you have written at least 200 pieces.
This is my 80th.
I guess I've got 120 more to go.
The Voice That's Pushing Me Forward
You see, writing helps me practice articulating my thoughts on paper but if I could do the same when speaking, that would be awesome. For this reason, I feel compelled to re-explore public speaking. I did it in high school... participated in lots of debates and gave speeches. Back then, I was also very much into reading.
I think it's time to slowly start re-embracing those habits and hobbies.
I don't know where they would lead or how long it would take as I know I would need a lot of practice to get to the level I want, particularly for French... but there's been this voice asking me to get back into it.
That same voice asked me to stop applying for jobs and start building.
With everything I've proven to myself these past 49 days, including today, I really think I should listen to it again.
What I'm Taking Away
Well, that is all for this reflection.
The pattern is becoming clearer to me now: teaching has always been at the core of what brings me joy. Whether it was explaining math concepts to my classmates in boarding school, building pillow forts to record YouTube videos, creating training videos at Cambium Inc, or now writing these blog posts, the thread is the same.
I teach. That's who I am. And writing is simply the current medium.
Thank you for being here!