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论写作：创业者为什么应该写作
On writing: Why entrepreneurs should write
导读
这篇讨论为什么创业者（以及工程师）应该写作：写作能提升表达的可信度与影响力，还能把早期思考长期留在公开网络上，持续带来机会。文章也提醒，公开写作虽有利于建立社区和人脉，但并非所有信息都应免费，写作者要权衡开放与保留。
可以直接用的写作要点
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把写作当成可练习的技能：写得越多越自然、越自信，别人也更愿意相信并采纳你的建议。
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尽量做公开写作，而不是只写内部邮件或存档文档，这样文字能长期复用，像把时间存进瓶子。
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写作质量会直接影响别人对你和团队专业程度的判断，至少要能把博客句子写连贯。
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公开写作有取舍：它能建立人脉和社区，但不必把所有信息都默认免费公开。
HN 评论精选
我认为口头和书面沟通大概是工程师最被忽视的技能。写吧，练习会让它变容易；写得越好，表达越自然、越自信。质量、流畅度和自信都会让人更相信你说的话，也更愿意支持你的建议。实际一点说，你可以靠写作拿到工作或投资；而且写对了，文字不会腐烂，你能从很久以前写的东西里持续获益，这相当于把时间装进瓶子，对时间紧张的创业者很有意义。这也意味着，做公开写作可能比写那些最后进了大公司邮件归档、或藏在高校里几乎没人会穿过的制度与文化高墙后的文字更好。
patio11查看英文原文
I think oral and written communication is probably the most overlooked skill for engineers. Write. It gets easier with practice. As you get better at it, it will come more naturally and you will be more confident. Quality, fluency, and confidence all make people much more likely to believe what you are saying and act favorably towards your suggestions. At a practical level, you can write your way into jobs (or investment), and if you do it right writing does not rot, so you can continue to reap benefits from things you've written long before. That lets you store time in a bottle, which has really nice implications for time-strapped entrepreneurs. (This also implies that you'd probably be better doing public writing than writing which winds up in the email archives of BigCorp or behind a logistical and cultural wall almost nobody will pierce at your institution of higher learning.)
“信息就是用来被消费的，就是用来自由的，就是用来尽可能触达更多人、被分享和讨论的。”公平地说，不同信息“注定”用于不同目的。我的邮箱密码就不是用来免费公开的。如果 Calacanis 决定他的写作现在适用于另一种自由程度，那是他的选择；别人没跟着走，可能只是需求/目标不同（而且这些也会变）。有思考的开放写作确实对建人脉、建社区有强大作用，但有取舍。总体来说这是一篇好文章，我只是觉得不该诉诸“原始信息”的道德理想。互联网现状似乎表明世界想要（常常要求）免费信息，但我们仍在经济等方面承受这场运动的后果，并等着看它最终走向哪里。
powrtoch查看英文原文
"Information is meant to be consumed. It's meant to be free. It's meant to reach as many people as humanly possible, shared, and discussed." Let's be fair. Different information is "meant" for different things. My email password is not meant to be free. And I think if Calacanis has decided that his writing is now meant for a different level of freedom, that's his call. If others aren't jumping ship with him, they probably just have different needs/goals (and these may change). Thoughtful and open writing really does have a great power for networking/community-building, but there are trade-offs. A good essay on the whole, I just don't think we should appeal to the moral aspirations of raw information. The current state of the internet seems to show that the world wants (often demands) free information, but we're still reeling (economically and otherwise) from this movement, and waiting to see where it ultimately will lead.
作为技术人，我有时觉得网络创业全靠写作：我遇到的大多数创业者把编程外包给别人，自己只做写作——博客文章、推文、给投资人的邮件、回答支持论坛问题……常听到以“Sergey 和 Larry……”开头的故事，但我怀疑那两个人没花时间写博客、发推说 Google 会多牛。这只是又一个更像 S&G 的理由 :)
limaya查看英文原文
As a technologist at feel at times that web entrepreneurship is all about writing: most entrepreneurs I have met outsource coding to someone else and all they do is write: blog posts, tweets, emails to investors, answering support forum questions... It's common to hear stories that begin with "Sergey and Larry..." but I doubt those guys spent any time blogging and tweeting about how awesome Google was going to be. Just one more reason to be more like S&G, that's all :)
多写的另一个理由是，“写得更多”和“写得更不烂”之间往往正相关；在商业世界里，“写得更不烂”确实很重要，因为不管你多聪明、产品多好，如果你在博客上连一句连贯的话都拼不出来，你就有很大风险让自己和同事显得比你们实际更蠢（至少在那些在意“写得更不烂”的人眼里）。
mattlanger查看英文原文
Another reason to write more is that there tends to be a positive correlation between Writing More and Sucking Less [At Writing], and in the business world there's really something to be said for Sucking Less [At Writing] because regardless of how smart you are or how great your product is if you can't string together a coherent sentence on your blog you run the serious risk of making yourself and your colleagues look dumber than you all probably are (at least in the eyes of people who care about Sucking Less [At Writing]).
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