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How to Not Write Bad

Ben Yagoda

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"How to Win Friends and Influence People" by Dale Carnegie. I'm not saying my coworkers are a bunch of jerks, but it's got a lot of great advice for working alongside others and resolving differences. --- "How to Not Write Bad" by Ben Yagoda. I'm not saying my coworkers are all terrible writers, but for many of them, writing just isn't their thing. But learning how to avoid the most common writing problems is important for programmers, because everybody ends up writing some degree of documentation. -- "Experimenting With Babies: 50 Amazing Science Projects You Can Perform on Your Kid." I'm not saying my coworkers are a bunch of babies, but I wrote the book, so I want _everybody_, not just my colleagues, to read it.

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