Remote Writing Clarity Matters

A discussion about how remote work has elevated the importance of written communication in business.

"Now more than ever, as companies are going remote, writing is an incredibly important skill. You need to be able to communicate through email, through Slack, writing memos in Google docs so that other people can understand your thinking and your plans.

The problem is most people suck at writing and a lot of people are self-conscious about it, which is why a company like Grammarly can be at $100 million in revenue just doing spell check and grammar check type things.

Hemingway is a cool little app I discovered many years ago which analyzes your writing and helps you make it more punchy. It tells you 'hey this paragraph is too wordy' or 'hey why are you using this complicated word, there's a simpler one you could use.'

I think somebody could build a Hemingway-like tool for business and help you write better business emails. I'm very interested in this - I talked to the Hemingway guys and said I'd like to buy their business because I want to do something like this."