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I see text as read optimized, but write expensive and not well suited or efficient for lots of scenarios: - wood working, absolutely horrible to work from text
by janee 6y ago
I see text as read optimized, but write expensive and not well suited or efficient for lots of scenarios:
- wood working, absolutely horrible to work from text, which I've done.
- group ideation, as much as I love IM'ing, audio + diagrams personally feels like a more effective way of communication.
- troubleshooting, too many times I've had to text my parents how to troubleshoot their router only to end up calling them and slowly talking them through it.
These are super specific, but I'd still wager audio and video trump text in a significant number of general scenarios that require communication of some kind.
Anything that needs read optimization i.e. this is information that needs to be communicated over and over, text is better. But often that's not a requirement.
- tremon 6y agotoo many times I've had to text my parents how to troubleshoot their router only to end up calling them and slowly talking them through it. This is not an inherent problem of text, but a problem of synchronous vs asynchronous communication. Round-trip latency of a phone call is much shorter than IM. But I'd say that speech and text still use the same medium (language), so it's not really an argument either way.