People read with their ears, whether they know it or not.
Noise is the typographical error and the poorly designed page...Ambiguity is noise. Redundancy is noise. Misuse of words is noise. Vagueness is noise. Jargon is noise.
If you write for yourself, you'll reach all the people you want to write for.
Never forget that you are practicing a craft with certain principles.
Scholarship hath no fury like that of a language purist faced with sludge.
Be wary of security as a goal. It may often look like life's best prize. Usually it's not.