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If you spend a lot of your time coding, you are preferring an activity that also others can do to something that only you can do. For some reason this sentence
by gfody 10y ago
If you spend a lot of your time coding, you are preferring an activity that also others can do to something that only you can do.
For some reason this sentence took a while to make sense
- jaredsohn 10y agoI experienced the same thing. I think moving 'also' like this makes it more clear: If you spend a lot of your time coding, you are preferring an activity that others _also_ can do to something that only you can do.
- 31reasons 10y agostill not clear. Do I have to read the article to understand it ?
- dasil003 10y agoEven better if you move it one word further? If you spend a lot of your time coding, you are preferring an activity that others can _also_ do to something that only you can do. Or maybe just change the whole phrasing: If you spend a lot of your time coding, you are preferring an activity that someone else could do to one which only you can do.
- tbartel 10y agoThank you for your suggestions. I actually adopted your last one, see http://tombartel.de/2016/07/05/recalibrate-your-productivity-sensors/ http://tombartel.de/2016/07/05/recalibrate-your-productivity...
- bendykstra 10y agoIt's the word 'also.' Its position at the start of the clause sets up the expectation that the activity also does something, rather than others.
- catnaroek 10y agoThat greatly depends on what kinds of things you code.
- rixed 10y agoOthers can do the work but also only a manager can write.
- tbartel 10y agoYou are right, that sentence was hard to parse. I changed it. Thanks for mentioning it.