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> 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.



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