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Really? I see people in my job doing far less writing than they ought to. Little to no documentation, little to no design docs, and where stuff is written, the
by deathanatos 3y ago
Really? I see people in my job doing far less writing than they ought to. Little to no documentation, little to no design docs, and where stuff is written, the document fails to explain the why/how of its design, includes grave errors about how preexisting system work, etc.
None of that seems to hold them back: they plow into code head first … and … stuff comes out the other end.
Even Slack messages from many of my co-workers are broken fragments of terrible grammar. The syntax is corrupt … let alone the semantics of whatever the hell they're trying to convey.
And I see no correlation between these people, and failure in the corporate world.
- omginternets 3y agoThat tells us that people aren’t writing as much as they should, not that writing isn’t a valuable skill. Looking at the top quartile of every profession I have been involved in, those people consistently write more and better than their peers.
- nonethewiser 3y ago> That tells us that people aren’t writing as much as they should, not that writing isn’t a valuable skill. It depends on what it means by valuable. We may value it, sure, but in his example the poor communication didnt hurt their performance reviews or salaries.
- omginternets 3y agoValuable means “having a significant positive impact on one’s career opportunities”.