How I Became a Better Writer
When I was younger, I didn’t like writing at all. Math and science? Loved them! But subjects that involved lots of reading and writing? Not so much. Sure, I got good grades in those subjects, but I just didn’t enjoy them.
Now, things are different. I’ve written hundreds of articles online, and millions of people have read them. So, what changed?
A memory from high school helps explain. There was a classmate who teased me because I wasn’t great at speaking English. Even though I was doing well in other subjects, my English wasn’t the best. I wanted to get better, especially since I was worried about my final English exam.
Lucky for me, a senior colleague offered to help. He gave me essay assignments. After I finished, he’d review them and give me feedback. He even encouraged me to use a dictionary when writing. Soon, I was carrying a dictionary and my essays everywhere. My writing improved a lot! I started getting much better grades on my essays. Even though I hoped for an A on my final English exam, I got a B, which was still great for me.
Before starting university, I made my first blog. That was in the year 2014. Over the years, I’ve created various blogs and written on many topics. Looking back, all those years were preparing me to be a better writer. I just wish I had written more consistently, I believe I would have been even more prolific than I am now.
Today, I’ve been writing daily on my website for a whole month. It’s like a public diary where I share my thoughts. When I think about the past month and my journey, I realize practicing consistently and learning from great writers helped me improve.
So, what’s the secret to becoming a better writer? Practice regularly and learn from the best!
Dr. Ehoneah Obed (Pharmacist, Software Engineer, Health Informatician, Founder)
My work focuses on identity engineering, which is the deliberate process of designing and updating who you are, personally and professionally.
Most people experience identity as something fixed or accidental. It is shaped by parents, early success or failure, education, and society’s definition of what a “good life” looks like. They adapt to it rather than questioning it. What most people do not realize is that identity is not just something you discover. It is something you can actively engineer.
Personal identity engineering is about gaining control over how your beliefs, values, and self-concept are formed and reinforced.
Professional identity engineering is about translating that internal identity into skills, work, leverage, and visible contribution in the world.
When people feel stuck, it is rarely because they lack motivation or talent. It is because they are trying to change outcomes while leaving the underlying identity system untouched. Careers stall. Confidence collapses. Direction feels unclear. The system keeps producing the same results.
I learned this by rebuilding myself multiple times.
I trained as a pharmacist for six years. While working in hospitals, I began learning to code alongside my job. That led to building real software, selling products, transitioning into software engineering, completing a master’s degree in health informatics at the University of Toronto, and now building startups and systems full time. Each transition followed the same pattern. My identity did not change because I thought differently. It changed because I took specific actions that produced new evidence, and that evidence forced a new story about who I was capable of being.
That is the core mechanism behind identity engineering.
Identity updates when you intentionally generate evidence that contradicts your old self-image, then compound that evidence until the old identity can no longer run the system.
This blog is where I document that process. I write about how to design identity experiments that are small, controlled, and reversible. How to build proof-of-work that changes both how you see yourself and how the world responds to you. How to move forward without waiting for clarity, confidence, or permission.
This is not motivation and it is not coaching. It is systems thinking applied to human change.
I also write The Ledger, a weekly record of systems and experiments for building a life you own.
And I built the Identity Audit, a diagnostic tool that helps you understand your current identity state before you attempt to change it.
I am not presenting a finished theory. I am engineering this in real time, using my own life as the test environment. If you want more agency over who you are becoming, both personally and professionally, you are in the right place.
