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> Your mention of novels and emotion is a false equivalence because novels are richly authored, edited and long form. It is not a false equivalence but rather
by stonethrowaway 2y ago
> Your mention of novels and emotion is a false equivalence because novels are richly authored, edited and long form.
It is not a false equivalence but rather a statement that there isn’t anything inherent about text that makes it devoid of emotional quality.
For people who aren’t reading between the lines: we need to get better at writing. My over all point is, in large part, about that. That the denizens of internet who have been around for decades already possess this skill because they have, I would hope, successfully applied it and shipped (in my example) open source software as a distributed text based communication team.
- nuancebydefault 2y agoMost people I work with don't have those skilled writing that comes with open source involvement. Things like Release notes, releasing and versioning are often handled in a very sloppy way. They throw over some software or hardware and then they make some calls about how it is supposed to be used, forgetting to communicate all the caveats... Yeah you first need to set that jumper, wait 5 seconds and start the app... kind of communication.
- dansitu 2y agoI'd argue that effective written communication is a skill that can be learned and taught, and a best practice that can be enforced, rather than an innate property of a given human being. If you can write code, you can create documents that include all the necessary details for a handover—without needing to be a brilliant writer—as long as you're aware that you're required to do so.