EP23: Why Writing Will Make or Break Your Engineering Career

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Most engineers spend years perfecting their coding skills but completely ignore the one skill that actually determines who gets promoted, who gets their ideas shipped, and who leads projects: **writing**.

In this episode, we break down why documentation isn't just "nice to have" - it's the difference between being a code monkey and being an engineering leader.

We cover why meetings are the WORST place to get alignment and what to do instead, the "mind virus" technique for spreading your ideas when you're not in the room, why people ask "stupid questions" in meetings (hint: it's your fault), how Netflix and other top companies use "living documents" to scale decisions, the truth about AI-assisted writing and why it won't save you.

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