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Composing an email works. Start writing about the problem, and as you write, imagine the (adversarial?) comeback: Did you try A? B? C? Have you considered D or
by euroderf 2y ago
Composing an email works. Start writing about the problem, and as you write, imagine the (adversarial?) comeback: Did you try A? B? C? Have you considered D or E? Do you know about F?
Numerous times IME, from this process of message composition has emerged a solution.
- yowzadave 2y agoThis is what I do—it can even be a detailed slack message. I start writing the message with the goal of asking for some guidance, but in the process of carefully outlining the problem and what I’ve already attempted (in order to respect the time of my colleague) I usually arrive at the correct solution. I then delete the email without ever needing to send it.
- euroderf 2y agoPutting it into words, methodically, structuredly, seems to do the trick eh