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Textual communication is inefficient in many collaborative scenarios. Humans speak faster than type.



And yet my brain functions at least 100x faster than I can speak, leaving me to unsnarl the proverbial traffic jam in my head as the rate at which speech can communicate ideas lags behind the vast decision trees quickly generated in my thoughts.

It's much more effective for me to write something that's both clear and persuasive than trying to express the same idea with synchronous, expository speech. For full disclosure, I was trained as a writer.

Whenever the interview process includes a writing component, I invariably ace them. I'm a software engineer.


I find that verbal communication is often very inefficient in engineering scenarios. There is a reason RFCs are not done verbally.




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