There are no lossless transformations of natural-language text (Sophie Alpert)

Some lovely bits from Sophie Alpert: Spending time on the writing process — on deciding what to emphasize and how to structure your ideas clearly — teaches you more about your topic. If you circumvent this process, you will probably walk away with a poorer understanding of the subject matter. In Most docs are written by one person but are read by many people, so any extra time that readers need to spend to understand what you meant incurs a multiplicative cost on the team’s time. Conversely, if you spend extra time to make your document clear and concise before sending it, you are paying a one-time cost that every reader will benefit from.