Get the details right: It’s part of your job

Details matter. In life, in art, and in technical writing.

It’s hard to think of three better action movies than the Bourne trilogy, in which the protagonist — Jason Bourne, played by Matt Damon — spends a good bit of time being chased by bad guys. Bourne hopscotches across Europe, eluding his pursuers in Paris, Berlin, Moscow, and London. Finally, Bourne arrives in a city where I know my way around: New York. And that’s where it gets weird.