Rare is the leader who can actually write well
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Rare is the leader who can actually write well
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#2Regardless of political belief, Reagan was a prolific writer of letters that were articulate and thoughtful. I seem to remember someone collected them into a book.
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#3That should be - "Rare is the leader who can actually write good"
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#4"If you are trying to decide between a few people to fill a position, always hire the better writer. It doesn't matter if that person is a designer, programmer, marketer, salesperson, or whatever, the writing skills will pay off. Effective, concise writing and editing leads to effective, concise code, design, emails, instant messages, and more.
That's because being a good writer is about more than words. Good writers know how to communicate. They make things easy to understand. They can put themselves in someone else's shoes. They know what to omit. They think clearly. And those are the qualities you need."
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#5"If you are trying to decide between a few people to fill a position, always hire the better writer. It doesn't matter if that person is a designer, programmer, marketer, salesperson, or whatever, the writing skills will pay off. Effective, concise writing and editing leads to effective, concise code, design, emails, instant messages, and more. That's because being a good writer is about more than words. Good writers…
It's because writing is really hard to fake. You can fake friendliness, you can fake efficiency. Some people are bright but have a hard time speaking quickly. A lot of that stuff isn't really indicative of a person.
You can't fake writing. You've got to have the right skills to write or else it won't work. And a lot of the things that make writing good - empathy, flair, organization - are things that help in any situation.
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#6"If you are trying to decide between a few people to fill a position, always hire the better writer. It doesn't matter if that person is a designer, programmer, marketer, salesperson, or whatever, the writing skills will pay off. Effective, concise writing and editing leads to effective, concise code, design, emails, instant messages, and more. That's because being a good writer is about more than words. Good writers…
As a CS grad student with an undergrad degree in creative writing, I always feel like I have to explain how I got here.
I usually tell people I have an affinity for metaphors, and remind them that their desktop, folders and files are all electronic metaphors.
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#7s/actually//
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#8s/actually//
's/s\/actually\/\//s\/actually\/also\//'
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#9s/actually//
The only valid use of 'actually' that I can think of is to correct someone in a smug way ('actually: synonymous with 'you idiot''). Any other use seems to be filler. Am I missing some good uses for it?
"1 + 1 is 11" "acccctually, it's 2"
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#10I don't write much in terms of stories, poems, blog articles, essays, etc. But I do write a lot in forum posts, emails and everyday work notes (into the tens of thousands of posts over the years).
Yet I've never got much feedback about my writing style. With ten thousand posts of careful practise, I would presumably be pretty good by now. What a wasted opportunity.