Reading is undervalued, and just writing better won't fix it. Good readers tend to underestimate this problem obviously. If you read the article I bet your col

Reading is undervalued, and just writing better won't fix it. Good readers tend to underestimate this problem obviously. If you read the article I bet your colleague didn't, and he or she isn't interested in reading your better-catchy-succinct-effective-if-not-superlative writing either, and he or she is going to rewrite the system. (Oh but exceptions I can think of are Harry Potter, and also the LKML as a vehicle for developing linux)