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This post is an example of what is wrong with non-technical people. Lots and lots of verbiage is used, much of which has not objective meaning. As a result, the

• creesch 1y ago
  Nah, enough technical folks who do the exact same thing just in highly specific syntax equally difficult to follow for anyone regardless of them being “technical” or not. However, you might be one of the people the person in the post is talking about. The people who make “being technical” into a status symbol and something to gate keep. To the point that I have to wonder if you are going for some sort of stereotypical response in order to make a point. If you are not, then your reply is not cool, or productive.
• pjc50 1y ago
  > The exact opposite of technical writing Of course it's not technical writing! That's the point, it's human writing about the human experience. Which of course some Technical people regard as an imperfection to be ground off the perfect featureless spherical non-human Technical.
• mikelevins 1y ago
  As a person with a graduate education in psychology who makes his living by being considered technical, who has made his living around 35% of my 37-year career as a technical writer, and whose technical writing has been described in glowing terms by professionals in the tech writing field and the engineering leadership at FAANGs, some of them famous for their technical contributions, I disagree with your assessment. I think it's a rather well constructed piece about social boundaries that is incidentally somewhat technical (though, I'm guessing, its technical aspects are from outside your field).