I read this blog post and spent some time thinking about how writing skills have helped me become a better engineer so far (and how they could help in the future!). My first job was at a place where ALL communication happens in a public IRC channel. This basically meant that you need to be good at written communication to be able to have meaningful impact. So I understood the need to be able to write well implicitly very early. However, I didn’t really explicitly think of these benefits until I started working for Stripe which has a pretty big writing culture.
Write a design document
Write a design document
Write a design document
I read this blog post and spent some time thinking about how writing skills have helped me become a better engineer so far (and how they could help in the future!). My first job was at a place where ALL communication happens in a public IRC channel. This basically meant that you need to be good at written communication to be able to have meaningful impact. So I understood the need to be able to write well implicitly very early. However, I didn’t really explicitly think of these benefits until I started working for Stripe which has a pretty big writing culture.