What Martin Kleppmann thinks about writing

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Computer science researcher at Cambridge, author of Designing Data-Intensive Applications, after a decade in industry at his own startups and LinkedIn.

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1. 22 Apr 2026

   Our readingWriting is how the thinking gets done, so a writer who hands the words to a machine has given away the part that mattered.

   Their wordsIt's more that for myself, the process of writing is the way how I figure things out. And figuring things out is really my goal here. So, I'm I'm trying to figure it out in my own heads, and for that I just have to write it myself.

   ↗Designing Data-intensive Applications with Martin Kleppmannyoutube.com 25th of 26 in this recording