There are some excellent gems: it's worth reading the whole post! A few things that really stood out to me:

From an information theory point of view: We want to communicate concepts, but we have to translate them into words. This can lose a lot of information. Examples are another channel of communication, that can identify errors in translation

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A really interesting article by Simon Tatham (the PuTTY guy) about his preferences for collaborating on software.