Upgrade to Pro — share decks privately, control downloads, hide ads and more …

If You Code, You Should Write by Brian K. Jones

Sponsored · Your Podcast. Everywhere. Effortlessly. Share. Educate. Inspire. Entertain. You do you. We'll handle the rest. →
Avatar for PyCon 2013 PyCon 2013
March 17, 2013
Technology
3
1.1k

If You Code, You Should Write by Brian K. Jones

Avatar for PyCon 2013

PyCon 2013

March 17, 2013
Tweet

More Decks by PyCon 2013

See All by PyCon 2013
Bayesian statistics made simple by Allen Downey
Avatar for PyCon 2013 pyconslides
32
6.6k
Python for Humans
Avatar for PyCon 2013 pyconslides
40
6.8k
Contribute with me! Getting started with the tools of free software development by Jessica McKellar
Avatar for PyCon 2013 pyconslides
11
2.1k
ApplePy: An Apple ][ emulator in Python by James Tauber
Avatar for PyCon 2013 pyconslides
3
1.7k
Use curses, don't swear by Sean Zicari
Avatar for PyCon 2013 pyconslides
2
1.5k
Namespaces in Python by Eric Snow
Avatar for PyCon 2013 pyconslides
9
2k
Internationalization and Localization Done Right by Ruchi Varshney
Avatar for PyCon 2013 pyconslides
9
1.2k
"Good Enough" is good enough! by Alex Martelli
Avatar for PyCon 2013 pyconslides
13
2.6k
Plover: Thought to Text at 240 WPM by Mirabai Knight
Avatar for PyCon 2013 pyconslides
1
1.3k

Other Decks in Technology

See All in Technology
Oracle Base Database Service 技術詳細
Avatar for oracle4engineer oracle4engineer
PRO
15
93k
20260208_第66回 コンピュータビジョン勉強会
Avatar for KeiichiIto1978 keiichiito1978
0
180
Introduction to Sansan, inc / Sansan Global Development Center, Inc.
Avatar for Sansan, Inc. sansan33
PRO
0
3k
予期せぬコストの急増を障害のように扱う――「コスト版ポストモーテム」の導入とその後の改善
Avatar for Masahiro Yoshizawa muziyoshiz
1
2k
制約が導く迷わない設計 〜 信頼性と運用性を両立するマイナンバー管理システムの実践 〜
Avatar for ないとー bwkw
3
970
ブロックテーマでサイトをリニューアルした話 / 2026-01-31 Kansai WordPress Meetup
Avatar for Toro_Unit (Hiroshi Urabe) torounit
0
470
Contract One Engineering Unit 紹介資料
Avatar for Sansan, Inc. sansan33
PRO
0
13k
OWASP Top 10:2025 リリースと 少しの日本語化にまつわる裏話
Avatar for Riotaro OKADA okdt
PRO
3
820
日本の85%が使う公共SaaSは、どう育ったのか
Avatar for たけだ taketakekaho
1
230
AIエージェントに必要なのはデータではなく文脈だった/ai-agent-context-graph-mybest
Avatar for Jun Naito jonnojun
0
100
Webhook best practices for rock solid and resilient deployments
Avatar for Guillaume Laforge glaforge
2
300
Introduction to Sansan for Engineers / エンジニア向け会社紹介
Avatar for Sansan, Inc. sansan33
PRO
6
68k

Featured

See All Featured
Digital Projects Gone Horribly Wrong (And the UX Pros Who Still Save the Day) - Dean Schuster
Avatar for UX Y'all uxyall
0
380
Highjacked: Video Game Concept Design
Avatar for Ryan Kendrick rkendrick25
PRO
1
290
How to Build an AI Search Optimization Roadmap - Criteria and Steps to Take #SEOIRL
Avatar for Aleyda Solis aleyda
1
1.9k
Have SEOs Ruined the Internet? - User Awareness of SEO in 2025
Avatar for Akash Hashmi akashhashmi
0
270
The Spectacular Lies of Maps
Avatar for Per Axbom axbom
PRO
1
520
Data-driven link building: lessons from a $708K investment (BrightonSEO talk)
Avatar for Szymon szymonslowik
1
910
Skip the Path - Find Your Career Trail
Avatar for Mark Kilby mkilby
0
57
The Invisible Side of Design
Avatar for Vitaly Friedman smashingmag
302
51k
No one is an island. Learnings from fostering a developers community.
Avatar for Antonio thoeni
21
3.6k
Money Talks: Using Revenue to Get Sh*t Done
Avatar for Nikki Halliwell nikkihalliwell
0
150
How to optimise 3,500 product descriptions for ecommerce in one day using ChatGPT
Avatar for Katarina Dahlin katarinadahlin
PRO
0
3.4k
<Decoding/> the Language of Devs - We Love SEO 2024
Avatar for Nikki Halliwell nikkihalliwell
1
130

Transcript

  1. If You Code, You Should Write @bkjones PyCon 2013 Friday,

    March 15, 13

  2. Brian K. Jones @bkjones on Twitter jonesy on freenode CTO

    @AWeber PSF Member Since 2011 Friday, March 15, 13

  3. Why This Talk? Friday, March 15, 13

  4. Why Don’t You Write? Friday, March 15, 13

  5. “It’s all been written before” “I’m not doing anything cool”

    Friday, March 15, 13

  6. “I’m a terrible writer” “I don’t know where to start”

    Friday, March 15, 13

  7. Identify Outlets Friday, March 15, 13

  8. Submit Content Friday, March 15, 13

  9. What Editors Assume You Know Friday, March 15, 13

  10. What Editors Do Friday, March 15, 13

  11. One more thing... Friday, March 15, 13

  12. I’m not a ‘Writer’ Friday, March 15, 13

  13. Writing is iterative Friday, March 15, 13

  14. Writers throw away content all the time. Friday, March 15,

    13

  15. Writing well takes practice and patience Friday, March 15, 13

  16. Writers use tools that make writing easier. Sometimes it seems

    like no two writers have the same setup. Friday, March 15, 13

  17. The point is... Friday, March 15, 13

  18. You’re already a writer. Friday, March 15, 13

  19. You find inspiration Friday, March 15, 13

  20. You iterate on your ideas Friday, March 15, 13

  21. You test them out Friday, March 15, 13

  22. You refine your thinking on the matter. Friday, March 15,

    13

  23. You revise. Friday, March 15, 13

  24. You move things forward through sheer expression Friday, March 15,

    13

  25. That’s called “writing” Friday, March 15, 13

  26. It’s just the tools you use aren’t configured to write

    prose optimally. Friday, March 15, 13

  27. You Should Write Friday, March 15, 13

  28. Thanks @bkjones Friday, March 15, 13