LEADERSHIP LAB: Writing Beyond the Academy 1.23.15

Why HN readers recommended it

HN treats it as the definitive writing lecture and recommends it repeatedly, with several commenters saying it changed how they write.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

UChicago Social Sciences

Topic

professional writing

Format

lecture

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

4

HN mentions in dataset

8

Recommendation years in dataset

2020–2025

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• My favorite writing lecture is this one: [VIDEO] The number one piece of advice: your writing can be clear and structured, but if it's not valuable it's useless and people will stop reading. If you want to write well, figure out who your readers are, …

• It's an article about writing, which means I will plug this lecture again: [VIDEO] Short version: good writing is not about rules, it's about the function of the text, the readers, and what they value.

• Last year wrote a technical writing advice checklist for engineers called How to ask for help in Slack : [LINK] . I was at Canva, a fast growing company adding 500 engineers a year, and the tenured engineers were getting hit with a lot of …