When I graduated college in 2023, I was told by English professors that I should pursue writing only if I couldn\u2019t see myself doing anything else. You\u2019ll be broke, eating canned tuna, and writing listicles for BuzzFeed, I was warned. Meanwhile, within hours of graduating, the computer science majors were hopping flights to San Francisco for jobs at Google, where they\u2019d go on to make more than their parents.<\/p>\n
In other words: Not too long ago, the most powerful language in the world was code. Good writing\u2014human writing, that is\u2014was thought to be a relic.<\/p>\n
But now, the start-up world is proclaiming on X<\/a> that \u201cstorytelling is about to become the most valuable skill in business,\u201d and that they\u2019ve \u201cnever seen<\/a> this many tech companies trying to hire in-house writers.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When I graduated college in 2023, I was told by English professors that I should pursue writing only…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188784,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,343,344,85,46,125],"class_list":{"0":"post-188783","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}