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Writing Culture Is Infrastructure
Why the companies that write well are the companies that compound. The argument is civilisational before it is operational.
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A structured knowledge repository exploring how the best companies build writing culture as infrastructure — in the tradition of The Kool-Aid Factory and the great company handbooks. Because what gets written down is what compounds.
Current issue: 01 — Repetition
Why the companies that write well are the companies that compound. The argument is civilisational before it is operational.
How Stripe, GitLab, and Linear turned documents into load-bearing walls.
A fieldnote on why most companies discuss writing culture and practice it nowhere.
When internal knowledge becomes ideology — and when it becomes something rarer.
On building employee experience as a design discipline.
Companies and sources this issue draws from:
Stripe
Writing culture, internal docs as product
Linear
Craft as speed, the changelog as literature
GitLab
Handbook-first, radical transparency
Cursor
Employee experience, culture as infrastructure