Re: Predecessors always worse?

Subject: Re: Predecessors always worse?
From: "John Posada" <jposada99 -at- gmail -dot- com>
To: "Erika Yanovich" <ERIKA_y -at- rad -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:56:08 -0400

Because griping gets you sympathy and gives a false sense of
superiority. When it's good, we just go on with our jobs.

On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 10:36 AM, Erika Yanovich <ERIKA_y -at- rad -dot- com> wrote:
> Why is that we hear sentences from tech writers like 'The documentation I inherited is badly written/should be completely rewritten/reorganized' (pick your favorite version) and not sentences like 'I was impressed by the documentation I found here'.
>
> Does this happen because the existing docs are objectively worse or because happy tech writers are quieter?



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References:
Honestly -- when an SME completely REWRITES your text ... GEEZ!: From: Downing, David
RE: Honestly -- when an SME completely REWRITES your text ... GEEZ!: From: Dan Goldstein
Predecessors always worse?: From: Erika Yanovich

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