Fundamentally I think good writing is about having enough cognitive empathy for your audience to understand what you need to say in order to generate the desired thoughts in their minds.
This is what I need to work on most.
I have had several important ideas which took literally years to really get acted on (proving out that they were important, incidentally) and I’m almost certain it is because I don’t have a lot of skill at overcoming the inferential distance that was (in retrospect) a huge blocker to communication, and partially, that’s because I wasn’t really thinking “okay but how is this paragraph going to land when they read it?”, instead more like “is this aesthetically pleasing to me, knowing what I know?”
This is what I need to work on most.
I have had several important ideas which took literally years to really get acted on (proving out that they were important, incidentally) and I’m almost certain it is because I don’t have a lot of skill at overcoming the inferential distance that was (in retrospect) a huge blocker to communication, and partially, that’s because I wasn’t really thinking “okay but how is this paragraph going to land when they read it?”, instead more like “is this aesthetically pleasing to me, knowing what I know?”