#Writing
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Becoming a Better Writer
The article argues that writing is a core skill in tech leadership and lays out a practical loop: draft, edit, seek feedback, study strong examples, and build habits that make writing regular practice.
How to think in writing
The essay argues that writing makes thoughts rigid enough to inspect, exposes cracks in vague ideas, and helps refine them by making claims, stretching explanations, and testing counterexamples.
Write Down the Plan
The post argues that writing down and sharing a plan improves thinking, creates alignment, and increases visibility, making it a useful habit for software engineers and career growth.
From Tech Docs to Blog Posts: How Writing Can Transform Your Career
The post argues that writing online improves technical writing by forcing clearer reading, reflection, and outcomes. It also says exposure reduces fear and makes repeated practice easier.
From Code to Words: How to Write Well for Software Engineers
The post argues that writing is a core engineering skill because it aligns teams, reduces meetings, and creates a shared record. It frames good writing as a practice built through Identify, Iterate, and Invite.
Networked Thought
The page argues that a digital garden should help ideas connect, evolve, and generate new thoughts. It favors low-friction capture, concept linking, and public writing over rigid folders and static archives.
Want to blog? Read this.
The text says that blogging is simple: start with an account, write something short, publish, and repeat. It argues that nobody cares at the beginning and that improvement comes from the act of writing.
Challenges in writing a programming book
The author describes the work of writing a software book, the time and money costs, and observes that developers tend to skim, prefer clear structure, and value video.
How I Structure My Writing
The author explains how she uses the 3-3-11 structure to organize paragraphs, essays, tutorials and walkthroughs, and how this helps define the main points before expanding the text.
“How to Write” — 10 Pieces of Timeless Advice by David Ogilvy
David Ogilvy's memo says that writing well helps career advancement, is not a natural talent, and requires discipline, clarity, short sentences, revision, and focus on what the recipient should do.
Dead Internet Theory
The text says the old internet died and was replaced by machines that write like humans, but without truth or life. Real people still exist, in broken places and on their own sites.
Come Up With the Perfect Name for Anything with These Helpful Web Tools
Five web tools for naming things (products, characters, apps): a combinatorial dictionary, a rhyme finder, a baby-name database, a fantasy name generator, and a domain search.
About Seth Godin
Seth Godin's about page lists a daily blog nearing 10,000 posts, 20 bestselling books in nearly 40 languages, and the Carbon Almanac, which he calls the most important project of his career.
How I use AI (Oct 2025) - Ben Stolovitz
Ben Stolovitz describes where AI helps him most: coding autocomplete, research for “pub facts,” summaries, transcription, and editing. He is skeptical of AI search, writing, and image generation.
I'd rather read the prompt
The essay argues that language-model writing usually buries original thought, adds vague filler, and should not replace a human voice, especially in school, reviews, and creative writing.
How to Write Blog Posts that Developers Read
The article argues that developer blog posts work better when they get to the point fast, expand to a broader audience when possible, have a realistic path to readers, use images, and stay skimmable.
How to communicate as a software engineer
The article argues that clear workplace communication is mostly about brevity, structure, and empathy: use bullets, edit before sending, leave out minutiae, and put the most important information first.
Some Unsolicited Blogging Advice
Brad Frost agrees that if you have any idea, you should start a draft. He describes two blogging modes: writing quickly, or building a draft over time until there is enough material to publish.
The 5 Best-Written Blog Post Examples Ever
The post argues that strong blog writing combines expertise, passion, simplicity, personal experience, and clear structure, illustrated with five examples and their common traits.
Takes Notes on Everything
The author argues that taking notes on what he reads helps him separate signal from noise, distill what matters, remember technical material, and build a useful public record for others.
Don't Write 1,000 Words a Day
Amy Hoy argues that writing should be driven by why it matters, not by forcing a daily word count. Guilt and arbitrary goals do not sustain the work.
How to spot bad business books
The piece says bad business books rely on vague inspiration, analogies, name-dropping, management-speak, and fake shortcuts instead of case studies, data, plain language, and real lessons.
Less than perfect
The post argues that success can make people hesitate to publish imperfect work. It recommends keeping low-pressure places to practice, since better work often grows from rough first attempts.
Writing-first Design
Downey argues that starting with writing clarifies the project, forces understanding of the subject, and improves design decisions whether the work is a website, app interface, or poster.
3 Evernote Writing Tips from Best-Selling Author Tim Ferriss
The post revisits how Tim Ferriss used Evernote to research and write The 4-Hour Chef, with examples of clipping online research, capturing field notes, and staying paperless.
How to Quit Your Job Like Sherwood Anderson: The Best Resignation Letter Ever Written
The page introduces Sherwood Anderson’s 1918 resignation letter, written as if he were firing himself, and frames it as a comic example of his wit and frustration with corporate work.