> People don't listen to me because I'm a good programmer, they listen to me because I'm a good writer. The same is true of pretty much everybody you'll read.
This is so important and so general. Even writers who make a lot of their real world experience like Nassim Taleb are still read because they are good writers. No one reads Jeff Bezos' letters to his shareholders, because he's not a good writer.
This is so important and so general. Even writers who make a lot of their real world experience like Nassim Taleb are still read because they are good writers. No one reads Jeff Bezos' letters to his shareholders, because he's not a good writer.