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Michael Cain • Edited

Creative and professional writing skills.

I’m dead serious.

One of the hardest things we have to do is name things. It, in itself, is an abstract activity: you are taking an idea and fixing it upon a word or short phrase. No small task! Some of the colloquial method names and error messages I see in projects makes me cringe.

If you can write an essay or a short story, you can probably name things well. Cultivate those skills.