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I spent a large chunk of my early career in organizations that were very docume… |
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@sarahjamielewis This Is The Way. We have lost the run of ourselves! |
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Post #AxN7vpBNcPk51kXzXM by [email protected] |
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@sarahjamielewis yeah, i'm really starting to miss human-written, human-rea… |
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The way I write today is heavily influenced by that culture, and it clashed har… |
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@sarahjamielewis I feel this |
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One of the main benefits of working within a document-focused culture is that t… |
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@sarahjamielewis In my current work, I started working with documents, which is… |
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@sarahjamielewis wait, orgas like this (document-focused, as you called them) e… |
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@sarahjamielewis Word |
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@sarahjamielewis One of my favourite jobs was working for a large (~40 staff) b… |
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@sarahjamielewis , I believe that the newcomers deserve real demos for some of … |
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@evilham @sarahjamielewis Well yeah, e.g. universities, law, standards (are the… |
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@sarahjamielewis @codebyjeff I work in a large organization where seemingly nob… |
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@sarahjamielewis sounds like AI flattening the world's intelligence |
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Post #AxNSD22d3qUAukw89Y by [email protected] |
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@sarahjamielewis I am very impressed, and a little envious. |
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Post #AxNTJUXC8ae6yXsT0i by [email protected] |
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@sarahjamielewis Ideally. And surprisingly often back then, exactly like that. |
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@sarahjamielewis good |
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@sarahjamielewis Unfortunately our time alive to spend reading things is a limi… |
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@sarahjamielewis Thnaks for sharing. I often get feedback that my prose is comp… |
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@sarahjamielewis Thank you! The corollary, imo, is that if your 30-page report … |
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@sarahjamielewis It is a longstanding observation by those in the document prep… |
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@sarahjamielewis Here! Here! |
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@sarahjamielewis RTFM seems to elicit more and more TL;DR these days. Hope thes… |
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@sarahjamielewis I feel the same way. I write a lot of text, especially design … |
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@sarahjamielewis Meanwhile, this is what Microsoft doco is like... |
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@sarahjamielewis The longest run of my tech career was in building / maintainin… |
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@sarahjamielewis I started out in Academia, went through the private sector and… |
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@sarahjamielewis lifehack: it's super easy to get half way there: producing… |
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@sarahjamielewis I experienced the same clash when moving from small Telecom or… |
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@sarahjamielewis one of the benefits of writing the document despite knowing it… |
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@sarahjamielewis One party at my local council has instructed councillors to su… |
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@Lluis_Revilla @sarahjamielewis it depends who you're communicating with, w… |
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@_thegeoff @sarahjamielewis The real question here is "if the email had mo… |
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@alan @sarahjamielewis Yup, ditto. And also, "Null response required"… |
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@_thegeoff @sarahjamielewis I started adding "negative option decision-mak… |
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@alan tangentially related: an old boss used to threaten recalcitrant engineer-… |
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@polarweasel Ha. Yes, that would be very effective! |
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@ancientsounds @evilham @sarahjamielewis Reputable magazines also work with a l… |
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@optimiced @ancientsounds @evilham @sarahjamielewis Programming, believe it or … |
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@sarahjamielewis the amount of times I make a document, then people copy paste … |
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@sarahjamielewis and that's after we DISCUSSED that you do not edit my docu… |
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@tsturm @sarahjamielewis we've switched Slack AI, even though we all agree … |
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@codebyjeff @sarahjamielewis For us it's Gemini for Google Meet. Works surp… |
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@alan Not anymore! But back then, we wrote paper manuals, and it was a fine tri… |
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@Lluis_Revilla @sarahjamielewis Sometimes I force myself to break longer senten… |
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@hosford42 @Lluis_Revilla @sarahjamielewis Especially when trying to analyze/di… |
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@polarweasel Also tangential, I had a client with a bad case of Excessive Meeti… |
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@alan I love it! I do appreciate a good billable meeting once in a while where … |
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@oisin @sarahjamielewis Often mis-attributed to Mark Twain: “I apologize for … |
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@ancientsounds @evilham @sarahjamielewis I assumed the initial poster was talki… |
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@fbarton Blaise Pascal would be a better attribution though Twain wrote somethi… |
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@OrionKidder @sarahjamielewis You can always sum up any document to six bullet … |
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@hosford42 @Lluis_Revilla @sarahjamielewis Reading something aloud can train yo… |
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@sarahjamielewis I don't have an academic background, but as an avid reader… |
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@n_dimension @sarahjamielewis Who says executives are the only audience? Sure, … |
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@lax @sarahjamielewis I love it when people edit documents that have my name on… |
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it has become more and more obvious to me that language is a tool and most of i… |
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@tanavit @sarahjamielewis Yes, that was my point. |
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@OrionKidder @sarahjamielewis Sorry, I did not understood (I am French and some… |
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@sarahjamielewis Amazon is SUPER document focused, no slide shows allowed. But … |
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@sarahjamielewis I love being retired but I do miss the experience of creating … |
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@sarahjamielewis @codinghorror > If a short summary could have conveyed the … |
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@timbray @sarahjamielewis I think the best approach is to require comments/ques… |
