Funny you should write about this today...

Earlier, I was pondering how the precise reason I got out of the business of being a "technical writer" in the IT industry was precisely that everyone wanted me to be a coder, not a writer. Sure I got decent enough at coding web pages-- it was part of the gigs-- but soon enough it seemed like the requirement for "writing" gigs (I worked as a contractor) was really 90% coding and 10% creating content. And I recognized that I had sold out...

I'm a writer, not a coder...

I ended up in usability and human factors for a while... and made it onto the "most hated" lists with developers for being that annoying person who would take "perfectly elegant" code and insist that it actually needed to DO something "real world users" would adopt. The GALL!

So yeah... from where I'm sitting, one of the things Steemit could use is more people who can explain to the devs how "real people" (aka non-technologists) actually use the web. As I try to get more people to try Steemit, I keep hearing that it's "too complicated." Elsewhere, things are a drag and drop widget driven system... not so much here.

Thanks for a thoughtful post!