Most of my technical knowledge comes from having worked in the industrial video industry.
Technical knowledge has now become an integral aspect of the Iranian psyche.
The only technical things I know are treble, volume and reverb, that's all.
I have no technical training and am completely uneducated in music.
When I was an institutional broker in a former life, I was a believer in the merits of using technical analysis. I found that it was a very useful tool that complemented the much more mainstream tools generically referred to as fundamental analysis.
Taking on challenging projects is the way that one grows and extends one's range as a writer, one's technical command, so I consider the time well-spent.