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People who think well, write well.
Woolly minded people write woolly memos, woolly letters, and woolly speeches.
~ David Ogilvy
We keep acquiring technical debt with each new release, which is actually quite normal, but we
cannot assess the impact properly until we do a code review.
We are increasing our technical debt with each new release. What’s the impact? We’d
have to do a code review to assess.
It will not be long before we are sorry that we did not write unit tests.
We will soon regret not writing the unit tests.
the question as to whether
there is no doubt that
the reason for this is
hold a meeting
I don’t mean to suggest that
for the purpose of
due to the fact that
whether
no doubt
because
meet
I don’t mean that
for
because
To be or not to be?~Shakespare
These are the times that try men's souls.~Thomas Paine
Jesus wept.~The Bible
Jason, who is a developer at our firm, suggested that we hold a meeting to discuss all
the various challenges that may arise in the implementation of the task at hand.
Jason, a developer at our firm, suggested we meet and talk about potential challenges of
this task.
Dear Bob,
Should you happen to have any further questions or require any sort of assistance, do not hesitate to contact me…
“In the unlikely possibility that an aircraft should
experience such an eventuality, oxygen masks
will drop down.”
Active voice (активний стан):
Passive voice (пасивний стан):The pen was broken by me
I broke the pen
When sacrifices like these are being made, technical debt is being acquired
By making these sacrifices, we are acquiring technical debt.
Unfortunately, many bugs were discovered in testing and the release
had to be postponed.
We discovered many bugs in testing and had to postpone the release.
Maintaining this legacy codebase could be a waste of our time.
Maintaining this legacy codebase may not be an efficient use of our
time
basically accurate
awfully nice
very good
vitally important
tall skyscraper
Lazy adjectives / adverbs:
instantly accepted
short meeting
tiny raise
baffling instructions
botched version
Useful adjectives / adverbs:
Don’t set up the business that you can start or launch.
Don’t say the president of a company stepped down.
Did he resign? Did he retire? Did he get fired?
“Don’t say you were a bit confused and sort of tired and a little depressed and somewhat annoyed. Be confused. Be tired. Be depressed. Be annoyed. […] Good writing is lean and confident.”
~ On Writing Well.
I wasn’t happy with the offer because the price was high.
I wasn’t too happy with the offer because the price was pretty high
He noticed a large stain right in the center of the rug.
He noticed a large stain in the rug that was right in the center.
For your review, I am attaching monthly reports and other materials
I am attaching monthly reports and other materials for your review
In the past week, our servers went down twice for up to 20 minutes at a time.
Our servers have not been performing very well lately
Our adult program was a great success. We attracted more students from more places than
ever before.
Our enrollment doubled to 560. Students came from Wyoming and twenty-seven other states, and from
Germany and Canada.
Don't MumbleStart selling with your very first sentence. Try to make it and every sentence that follows simple and declarative. Factual. And short.
Stop when you are through
Be specific about next steps
Use numbers to outline your points / questions
Use line breaks between paragraphs
Або для лінивих:
The class I'd like to teach by Jason Fried https://signalvnoise.com/posts/2647-the-class-id-like-to-teach
Write Like You Talk by Paul Graham http://paulgraham.com/talk.html