The point is you are never going to be the best so don’t wait until you are. I hear from a lot of people that they want to learn how to do x before they start writing. If you do that you’ll be waiting forever. Start now. Doesn’t matter how simple or silly you think the idea is. If you get your work out there, even if you just demonstrate you know how to ask a good question and your methodology is suspect people will still find it. The feedback may not be what you want all the time, but you’ll learn from it. I grimace when I look back at some of my early stuff, but I know if I’d never done it or put it out…
When you get into an industry like this you’ll inevitably compare yourself to the people who are better than you, and there are always people who are better than you. When I started most of my work was in excel with data I’d copy+pasted. I compared myself to people …