I’ve always liked things straight and direct to the point. But I feel a bit silly writing that here, since most of my blog posts from high school used a bunch of long words for no reason. My writing did eventually become more concise, but it happened around the time I also sort of stopped blogging. I stopped writing altogether for a few years, but then in college, I started doing an entirely different kind of writing. I wrote homework assignments and class announcements for the computer science classes as a teaching assistant. Technical writing is different from blogging, but writing for a student audience also has its own unique challenges. The gist of it is that students don’t like reading, which is naturally at odds with the long detailed project specs that some of our projects require. It’s the… more →