Given that:
there are: 365 days a year
and this may be going for 5 years
and taking 10 articles a year
this leads to 50 articles (quite a bunch)
each being written in 36.5 calendar days each (don't get me started with 366 days years ;-) ).
I (try to) write some articles and training materials myself. What I can tell is that it's not easy to write but that every single article can be used as a reference and over time leads to more and more conceptual integration in my brain.
I could say that it is like levels of mastery:
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I don't know that I don't know (uncounscious incompetence) [ before the course ]
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I know that I don't know (conscious incompetence) [during the course]
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I have to think about what I know to apply it (conscious competence) [applying the course data and building up skill]
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I do it without thinking about it (inconscious competence) [after having done it for a while, explaining it to others]
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Inventing new stuff and relating to other fields, making links (towards mastery) [new things, educated guesses, breakthroughs in the field, full productivity, will to tell the word to others, able to run a biz centered on the subject matter and having people follow you as a natural leader]
I guess someone like Joel Splosky (www.joelonsoftware.com) is at 5+.
This is maybe why the tone of his articles has changed some months ago, shifting from pure IT ground towards a more integrated view on strategy, office space etc.
