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Forgive me for bringing up my own material here, but I wrote a piece that is highly relevant in this context only two days ago:

Writing for Engineers - https://www.heinrichhartmann.com/posts/writing/

This text is particularly geared towards Software Engineers and focuses more on the psychology of getting started with writing. Lot's of overlap with the content in this post (which has much more depth on the "how to write well" part).



>Heat the iron before working it >Conversely, if you don’t have the context in your brain right now, you have two options (1) don’t write or (2) start loading the context into your brain.

I haven't heard that idea before - makes a lot of sense, thanks!


I hereby forgive you.


No need to ask for forgiveness.

Just disclose you're promoting something you created.


Thank you for posting and for having a site that is easy to save for later.


Good article!

I especially enjoyed the “Start at the Top not the Beginning” part.




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