Recommends On Writing.

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…That last point is so important. You may not be able to do all the things on your plate, but just telling people. Hey, I'm not going to get to this thing. Let's reprioritize as such a small thing you could do and really creates that, or if you got this, they're not going to forget about this thing asked you to do. Yeah. You're the shock absorber for the team. You're the thing that builds people's confidence that things are going to be running smoothly and you'll get over the Navajo speed bumps and whatever else. I'll combine two or three of these that are related or just more skills. I said right well. I actually think especially as you get to more senior positions, writing is the only scalable way of having influence on a larger, larger product org. There's a book called On Writing by Stephen King, which I recommend to literally everybody. Stephen King, you're like ... See he's not maybe the most literary critical acclaimed author, but he's a prolific author who publishes things that people love and tell their friends about and he has a great short book on the practice of writing high-quality, high-volume production. Before you move on, I'll throw a couple more books that I found useful in my writing. One is actually called On Writing Well. That's funny that they're so similarly titled, which basically every chapter is just another way to cut more from your writing. More and more parts you should cut. Interestingly, I do have a lot of guest posts in my newsletter and I find 90% of the time if I just cut the first paragraph of what they first took a crack at and jumps straight into the thing, immediately gets better. This book talks a lot about that. Another book that is amazing for writing better is Nobody Wants to Read Your Shit by the guy that wrote The War of Art, forget his name. But that book is awesome and it's just like nobody wants to read what you're writing. Here's how to maybe make it something people want to read. Then recently I read one called Several Short Sentences or something like that. It's all about just writing short sentences and that helps a lot. There you go. Three more recommendations.…

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