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If I asked you, "how do you master the art of communication?". Naturally, the answer would be another question: "Communicating what?" What you consider "effect
by 29athrowaway 4y ago
If I asked you, "how do you master the art of communication?". Naturally, the answer would be another question: "Communicating what?"
What you consider "effective" will vary depending on context. Think about how these different occupations use language: comedians, politicians, songwriters, novelists, sports commentators, science communicators, cattle auctioneers, therapists, salesmen, corporate executives, lawyers, physicians...
Being an effective dark humor comedian won't necessarily make you an effective doctor, and may likely even cause you to lose your job or even your license if you communicate in the same way.
Likewise, think about how different fields approach programming: operating systems, device drivers, compilers, cryptography, compression, networking, cryptocurrency, web development, scientific simulations, embedded systems, math software, theorem provers, games, signal processing, machine learning, artificial intelligence, information retrieval, robotics, etc.
If you are effective developing firmware for pacemakers or insulin pumps, and then they move you to a startup and ask you to develop using JavaScript, HTML and CSS as fast as possible (or viceversa), that may not go well for you.
Domain knowledge, expectations of your role, what's considered "best practices" and development processes differ between fields.