I have become convinced that the average tech writer (e.g. Wired, Linux Format, et al.) is making their readers stupider. It’s a genuine disservice. It’s like me trying to write articles on oncology or something.

Simplifications are necessary tools for teaching, but they are dangerous in the hands of someone who doesn’t have the higher level knowledge to correct the many things wrong with the simplification (which is honestly, almost everything) later on, and with readers who will never dive deeper.

The problem with people isn’t the things they don’t know, it’s the things they know that just ain’t so. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

And I can’t count the number of times I hear someone say something online that makes it exceptionally clear they read bs tech writers, and base product or personal decisions on it, to their detriment.