[wheels]

A big part of learning to write well is just doing a lot of it. For me it came in two parts:

- A history of long mails with my best friend (literally totaling several thousand pages)

- Blogging – and not the boring vanilla blogging, but actually building up essays

Being able to write well is really an ace in the hole. I mean, think about it – we know who people like Joel Spolsky and Paul Graham are because of their writing, not because of their software. The software just lends them some credibility when they decide to write about it.