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This is great and I applaud you for the effort that this took to put together.

I keep wanting to do something like this, but there is so much already out there with people that know more than I do that I feel it would just end up in the ether.

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There's always going to be someone more knowledgeable on a topic than the person teaching others. I think the more fair question to ask is if you are providing value and teaching other people who stumble onto your content.

Absolutely. Expertise definitely helps in explaining a subject, but newbies can also get a lot of value learning from someone who hasn’t forgotten what it’s like to be a beginner.

I'm addition, putting content out there is also a good way to learn from the feedback.

Exactly. It helps to realize a lot of content you publish is for the stumblers, people who by random chance will come upon your content and it may be the first of its kind that they have seen. New people are always being created.

I doesn't need to end up in the ether. The value/attractiveness of such course is not only the result of author's knowledge but also his/her personality, sense of humour, even voice timbre as well examples and excresises used and so long. And as these aspects are subjective there is one-size-fits-all-style so there is always a niche you can cater to with your own style.

Instead of considering how much you know compared to others, consider how well you can explain, illustrate and demonstrate what you know in order to transfer your knowledge to others.

Teaching is skill and like other skills, some are naturally better than others and teaching itself can be learned, practised and improved.

If you do a project others have not done, even if you don't explain it as well as someone else might, you are still giving a particular type of knowledge others did not, because the actual project DOES matter since it can lure people in who might not be by other tutorials.

I usually watch series like this one not, only, because of the knowledge content but looking for inspiration on methodology, workflow, thinking process, solution ideas, etc.

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