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I believe it. History is the process of reading - digesting - synthesising - formulating. That is the "write better" treadmill. Run it long enough (on any meat

• rg111 4y ago
  I agree. I write a lot nowadays. Proposals, reports, documentation, papers. One might think that scientific writing is entirely different from humanities writing. That would not be true. I had a very good middle school education in humanities, and that education comes in handy whenever I write something, anything. Writing has some core characteristics that are everywhere. Once you learn them well, they keep paying forever.
  • bigyikes 4y ago
    As a mid-level engineer, lately I’ve come to think that improving my writing (or more broadly, communication) skills is the best way to grow my career. All of those great ideas you have aren’t worth anything if you can’t communicate them. We try to make technical decisions as objectively as possible, but often some amount of persuasion is required to align everyone on your preferred outcome.
    • thrixton 4y ago
      Just anecdata but this matches my (as an engineer) experience exactly. For any engineer, transitioning to people management of any sort, or just to have a better voice in any decisions, I think that broadly communication improvement, and probably some sort of project management should be a very high priority.
      • kragen 4y ago
        As every fiction author knows, you can't tell people anything. You have to show them. http://habitatchronicles.com/2004/04/you-cant-tell-people-anything/ http://habitatchronicles.com/2004/04/you-cant-tell-people-an...