1. Avoid alliteration. Always.
2. Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.
3. Avoid clichés like the plague. (They're old hat.)
4. Eschew ampersands & abbreviations, etc.
5. One should never generalize.
6. Comparisons are as bad as clichés.
7. Be more or less specific.
8. Sentence fragments? Eliminate.
9. Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement.
10. Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
11. Who needs rhetorical questions?

Tout écrivain, Saint-Exupéry le premier, vous le dira : l’art de l’écriture, c’est de supprimer, de trancher, de raccourcir le texte pour lui donner de la puissance.

Dans mon entourage, les gens l’utilisent pour envoyer des dossiers administratifs. Alors, est-ce utile ? Non, c’est juste que ces dossiers sont complètement cons, que personne ne va les lire et qu’on utilise des outils cons pour gérer des problèmes à la con qu’on se crée soi-même.

Un outil et non une solution:

Comme le dit la linguiste Emily M. Bender, on ne demande pas aux étudiants de faire des rédactions parce que le monde a besoin de rédactions. Mais pour apprendre aux élèves à structurer leurs pensées, à être critiques. Utiliser ChatGPT c’est, selon les mots de Ted Chiang, prendre un chariot élévateur à la salle de musculation. Oui, les poids vont faire des va-et-vient, mais va-t-on se muscler pour autant ?

aphorisme: « tout le monde peut écrire, l’écrivain est celui qui ne sait pas s’empêcher d’écrire »

Bruno Leyval dessine tous les jours depuis qu’il est tout petit. Il dessine tout le temps. Il s’est transformé en machine à dessiner. Cette sensibilité de toute une vie ne pourra jamais se comparer à un algorithme générateur d’images.

À propos de l'IA qui génère du code: On cherche à optimiser la « création de logiciel » tout en oubliant la maintenance du logiciel et de l’infrastructure pour le faire tourner.

Currently, we're envisioning:

• Novel Writing Month - 50,000 words
• Novella Writing Month - 20,000 words
• Short Story Writing Month - 5 stories of at least 2,000 words each
• Poetry Writing Month - 1 poem per day
• Blog Post Writing Month - 1 blog post per day
• Graphic Novel Writing Month (maybe?) - a 50-page graphic novel
• …or, of course, a custom goal.

An awesome talk about how to write effectively.

A blog post version for developer is available in another shaare: https://shaarli.lyokolux.space/shaare/gNfmPg

#todo link my notes

The person who thinks everyone can write does the same because they do not understand the importance of written communication. They dismiss the importance of clear and concise writing and overestimate their own skills.

What make things interesting are personal things.
It is liberating. There are always topic to write about.

Maybe someone else will find joy in it, maybe not. It doesn't matter.

A lot of resources about writing

It has advantages:

• works on any device
• easily stored and transported
• easy to backup
• searchable
• secure (enough)
• extensible

A feedback about a daily journaling since 3 months

• recall in the last 48 hours. Afterwards the memories get lost.
• journaling slowed time down
• experiment is working! Constantly experimenting

Reason to write:

• share information
• learn about something
• side-effects such as help to establish your credibility

How to write for developers?

Consider the clarity, personality and the uniformity of content. Each medium has it scale on these three.

The physical act of writing? Start with notes and expand. Just start writing. A similar approach is reported by Finding comfort in the chaos: How Cory Doctorow learned to write from literally anywhere.
The point is to have something, then iterate.

The writing and designing guidelines for the Australian Government.

1. La méthode Cornell
2. Mind Mapping
3. Les Grandes Lignes
4. Les bulles
5. Tableaux
6. Sketchnote
7. Cases
8. Symboles
9. Phrases
10. Zettelkasten et les étiquettes
11. Le Labyrinthe inversé
12. Kwik Notes

• Decide what you’re actually saying
• Repeat yourself (within reason)
• Simplify
• Eliminate passive voice
• Don’t use adverbs
• Don’t assume knowledge
• Be aware of your tone
• Avoid jargon and cliches
• Make use of whitespace

In other words, while it seems like there’s never a good time to write about something, the truth is that there’s never a bad time to write about something.

The author arguments in favor of writing. Each arguments against writing is thwarted.

“After all”, they said, “the world doesn’t need yet another opinion.”

True. The answer is simple: don't publish for the world.

To be honest, I am only here because it's a habit, and I like playing around with my website. It's fine to write about your life and other such interests. My favourite blogs to follow do exactly that, but it's absolutely understandable if you don't want to do that.

If regular traveling has taught me anything, it’s that you can never depend on circumstance. You can only depend on yourself. And if there’s one writing skill that’s overlooked, then it’s the ability to just write as and when you choose, regardless of where you are, the time of day, or how comfortable you feel (and I mean that in a physical and symbolic sense).

Doctorow states in his own words:
“I learned to write crammed into coach seats with my laptop keyboard practically vertical, my wrists bent back at an agonizing angle. Between flights, I’d write crouched on the floor under the water fountain between the toilets in the departure lounge, nailing the only outlet and plugging in my travel power strip to share with others. […] I have written so much in so many places that the desk and the comfy chair and the big monitor are largely aspirational for me — the kind of place I’d like to be writing in, but rarely the place where I end up writing.”

TL;DR? Write how and where you want to write. And if you can’t, write anyway.

Write 5 times more because it helps thinking, practice makes you better, humans are worse than computers at storing knowledge and it frees the brain.
Then shorten it because the shorter it is, the more people will read it. Also, 80% of the value is in 20% of the length.