What Charity Majors thinks about writing

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Co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb, previously an infrastructure engineer at Parse, Facebook and Linden Lab. Co-author of "Database Reliability Engineering" and "Observability Engineering". Writes at charity.wtf about on-call, hierarchy, hiring and the engineer/manager pendulum.

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12 Aug 2026

Our readingWriting is thinking on paper and there is no shortcut for doing that thinking, so handing the writing to AI hands away the thinking.

Their wordsAnd I have decided not to sink anymore because writing is thinking on paper. And there's no shortcut for doing that thinking.

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