| I create video training courses on tech topics and one of the metrics I use to determine "is this performing well?" is the completion rate of the courses and individual videos. I started taking communication and story telling pretty seriously about 9 months ago and the data on my 2 latest courses (where I tried to create a cohesive narrative of the content) shows the completion rate being quite a bit higher than my older courses. Are there other things at play? Maybe, but I'm 100% convinced it takes more than "raw programming talent" to be a good programmer in general. When it comes to designing library code or public APIs, I would rather use code written by someone with 5 years of writing / story telling experience and 2 years of coding experience vs someone with 10 years of coding experience but can't communicate well at all. Chances are the 2nd person wouldn't be able to see the "big picture" stuff when it comes to designing APIs, and when it comes to API design, the big picture is the most important thing. The implementation details of each function is the easy stuff (since you're a Google search away from solving most technical problems). There's also many other factors that matter besides your code. For instance, if I can't even find your project, or your documentation is lack luster then it doesn't matter if you wrote the most elegant code in the universe, I'm not going to use it. |