Why Communication Is More Important Than Code

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Junior engineers often focus too much of their time on technical skills. Here’s why I’d argue engineers should spend more time developing communication skills.

Junior engineers often focus too much of their time on technical skills. Here’s why I’d argue engineers should spend more time developing communication skills. Effective communication improves every whiteboarding meeting Programming is high leverage since it allows us to do useful work through machines. Since code costs almost nothing to replicate, we can write it once and deploy it everywhere. Communication is even higher leverage since you can influence other engineers to ship what matters. This is strictly higher leverage than writing the code yourself. Impactful code is only one…

Why Communication Is More Important Than Code

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