Guest post for Counting Data: Technical writing is too important to leave to language models

I have a guest post up over at one of my favourite data Substacks, Randy Au’s Counting Data: “Technical writing is too important to leave to language models”. I share about why there are no shortcuts to writing something worth reading. Great technical writing has three things:

• Opinions, earned first-hand through direct practice
• Tacit knowledge, codified
• Context, on the broader problem being solved

There’s a lengthy list of my favourite technical writers and specific examples to emulate.

I also found a way to sneak my economic history MSc into my writing about data.