{"id":614,"date":"2026-01-14T07:07:48","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T07:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2026\/01\/14\/addyosmani-com-21-lessons-from-14-years-at-google\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T07:07:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T07:07:48","slug":"addyosmani-com-21-lessons-from-14-years-at-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2026\/01\/14\/addyosmani-com-21-lessons-from-14-years-at-google\/","title":{"rendered":"AddyOsmani.com &#8211; 21 Lessons From 14 Years at Google"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Writing forces clarity. When I explain a concept to others &#8211; in a doc, a talk, a code review comment, even just chatting with AI &#8211; I discover the gaps in my own understanding. The act of making something legible to someone else makes it more legible to me.<\/p>\n<p>This doesn\u2019t mean that you\u2019re going to learn how to be a surgeon by teaching it, but the premise still holds largely true in the software engineering domain.<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t just about being generous with knowledge. It\u2019s a selfish learning hack. If you think you understand something, try to explain it simply. The places where you stumble are the places where your understanding is shallow.<\/p>\n<p>Teaching is debugging your own mental models.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Read on <a href=\"https:\/\/addyosmani.com\/blog\/21-lessons\/\">addyosmani.com\/blog\/21-lessons\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writing forces clarity. When I explain a concept to others &#8211; in a doc, a talk, a code review comment, even just chatting with AI &#8211; I discover the gaps in my own understanding. The act of making something legible to someone else makes it more legible to me. This doesn\u2019t mean that you\u2019re going [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[24,7,19],"class_list":["post-614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-computing","tag-consciousness","tag-knowledge"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}