Introduction: Write, A Lot

Build a writing habit

“What many people underestimate is that being a good writer, whether that is through emails or through documents, allows you to be more impactful. I see many engineers ignore that skill. You might be proud of your code. You should also be equally proud of the craft of writing… Writing is a highly underestimated skill for engineers.”

Urs Hölzle, Google’s first VP of Engineering

If you are serious about making an impact in your coding career, you should get good at writing words as well as code. Developers write in a ton of scenarios both at work and for their own careers, and there are a host of attributes that make writing down your knowledge particularly rewarding for a knowledge worker like you.