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Writing, Technically with James Somers

Signals and Threads

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Writing Is a Way of Distributing Knowledge at Scale

Writing is humanity's invention for storing knowledge over time. And I think that fact can sometimes be forgotten in an organization that produces software. Writing is a way of achieving scale, of distributing knowledge at scale. You make your development life a million times easier as an individual once you have that documentation. When you try to adopt something like documentation it should really focus on what you're working on first and not necessarily if this is going to pay off for you personally.

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