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How to Write Email with Military Precision
- seeknotfind 3y agoI like BLUF more than tl;dr, because it doesn't imply the rest of the email is worthless.
- hsdropout 3y agoI like it when news does this as well. It's rare, but CNBC is one example, with their "Key Points" at the beginning of each article.
- c22 3y ago> "Sometimes, I even highlight the bottom line in yellow so that my point is abundantly clear." Be careful with this. I was having a hard time communicating with a coworker who put all her most important points in a unique purple sized-up font because it turns out decades of www-exposure has trained my brain to filter out and ignore information presented like this. (Being flashy and trying to hijack my attention are hallmarks of embedded advertisement.)
- lapestenoire 3y agoThe military is not an organization particularly known for precision. How about scientific precision or engineering precision?
- cafard 3y agoQuite. Hard to read the headline and not remember General McNair.