More than a dozen replies join a chorus of agreement here. I wonder if there’s another framing for this. One of the top educational institutions in the world i

More than a dozen replies join a chorus of agreement here. I wonder if there’s another framing for this. One of the top educational institutions in the world is formalising a communications approach that doesn’t casually evoke, reference, and cause suffering. This dynamic might only be present in a small percentage of their audience—in fact it affects quite a significant majority—but in either case it’s a win worth pursuing on the scale of their operations. The antidote to the fear and hysteria of change is transparency — and what a marvellous gesture of transparency here, from Stanford. (Remember the Byzantine episode from ICLR?) Context matters. Each of the guidelines linked here has some. It’s a gift: you can now use that language more precisely. And he who better controls his own language, better controls his world.