Writing is communication that lasts. If you don’t believe me, Google for the phrases antiquarian books or rare manuscripts. You’ll see books, codices, manuscripts, scrolls, and tablets going back millennia.
With storage going for pennies a megabyte and getting lower every year, you should just plan on everything staying around forever. Technical white papers are stored […]

The act of writing is fundamentally the act of communicating information to someone else. This sounds simple enough, right?
Here’s a challenge: pick up a technical article in your field. Or, even better, pick up one in a field you don’t know much about. What do you see? Does the author organize his material in an […]

It is nearly impossible to overstate the benefits of being able to write well.
In my experience it is more important to be able to write well than to speak well, at least until you reach senior levels of your organization or are interacting regularly with the public directly as a representative of your company.
Writing’s twin […]