This is even bleeding over into professional email. I’ve noticed that if I send more than a few paragraphs, the recipient won’t actually read any of it.
I’ve taken to highlighting the important things, so they’ll at least feel like they can reliably skim.
Work emails need to be short and to the point. I know, it sucks when you have something complex, but people prefer to talk. So email needs to be more if a record if high points of conversation, or a quick verification of something.
I learned early on that I should only ask one question per text or email. Every boss and project manager I’ve had has been seemingly unable to answer more than one question at a time.
I think I’ll start using your method when explaining things.
I have had multiple VPs ask me complex, technical questions, and then I write them a complex, explanatory answer…
And the reply that I get back includes them literally just saying ‘I didn’t read anything that would have required me to scroll.’
These were boomers.
Fuck, man, ok, at that point, you’re just asking a question to waste my time, apparently?
I’m not gonna dumb down concepts that can’t be dumbed down and still meaningfully answer the question.
I was hired here because I have specialized skills, if you’re too stupid to understand them, maybe realize that good leadership is more about knowing when to defer to your trusted experts, than it is about feeling like you are in total control and understanding of everything, all the time.
It really is no wonder why the entire economy is collapsing, the elites really are just pantomiming a caricature of having a job, doing a job, being an important person.
We’ve 'boys club’d and nepotism’d our way into mass executive incompetence.
I’ve noticed that if I send more than a few paragraphs, the recipient won’t actually read any of it.
I was reading an article about how some people were using LLMs to generate longer emails with more fluff to make it look like they were putting more work into their emails, and how other people were having LLMs summarize emails that had been sent to them to cut out excessive fluff because it was wasting their time.
One can but imagine what the end game of all this is.
This is even bleeding over into professional email. I’ve noticed that if I send more than a few paragraphs, the recipient won’t actually read any of it.
I’ve taken to highlighting the important things, so they’ll at least feel like they can reliably skim.
This is nothing new.
Work emails need to be short and to the point. I know, it sucks when you have something complex, but people prefer to talk. So email needs to be more if a record if high points of conversation, or a quick verification of something.
I learned early on that I should only ask one question per text or email. Every boss and project manager I’ve had has been seemingly unable to answer more than one question at a time.
I think I’ll start using your method when explaining things.
I have had multiple VPs ask me complex, technical questions, and then I write them a complex, explanatory answer…
And the reply that I get back includes them literally just saying ‘I didn’t read anything that would have required me to scroll.’
These were boomers.
Fuck, man, ok, at that point, you’re just asking a question to waste my time, apparently?
I’m not gonna dumb down concepts that can’t be dumbed down and still meaningfully answer the question.
I was hired here because I have specialized skills, if you’re too stupid to understand them, maybe realize that good leadership is more about knowing when to defer to your trusted experts, than it is about feeling like you are in total control and understanding of everything, all the time.
It really is no wonder why the entire economy is collapsing, the elites really are just pantomiming a caricature of having a job, doing a job, being an important person.
We’ve 'boys club’d and nepotism’d our way into mass executive incompetence.
When you write three questions, and only the first gets answered in the reply😒
I was reading an article about how some people were using LLMs to generate longer emails with more fluff to make it look like they were putting more work into their emails, and how other people were having LLMs summarize emails that had been sent to them to cut out excessive fluff because it was wasting their time.
One can but imagine what the end game of all this is.