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> Always judge an author by the length of their text. Flashbacks to a past employer where the CEO decided that brevity was a core company value and started rew
by Aurornis 7mo ago
> Always judge an author by the length of their text.
Flashbacks to a past employer where the CEO decided that brevity was a core company value and started rewarding people for short communications and scolding us for longer text.
Over the next year a few charlatans moved up the ranks by spitting out half-baked thoughts and e-mails all the time, which looked like clarity and brevity on the surface. People were afraid to speak out or discuss nuance because it was too many words, and you didn't want to use too many words.
- abustamam 7mo agoTangential but it kinda irks me when people just put their initials when signing off on an email. It seems like unnecessary brevity in a world where you can type your name once in your emails signature line and never worry about typing it again.
- jampekka 7mo agoHow about not writing the name at all? It's already in the email header.
- goodmythical 7mo agosupport@domain, info@domain, purchasing@domain, sales@domain, etc I can quickly imagine several situations in which one might speak to a public facing individual but still like to say "I was told by {sales rep} that {statement} was the case" or "{Employee} in support assured me this would be resolved in {timeperiod}" or "I had an excellent conversation with {employee} and want to ensure they'll be getting any commission due to them because they really convinced me more than your website"
- pona-a 7mo agoSee RFC 5322: From: "John Doe" <support@domain.com>
- abustamam 7mo agoEh, I'm ambivalent. Letters in the mail have a From and people still sign them and some people even date them even if there's a post mark. At this point though it's more work for me to remove my signature. Plus my signature has my phone number.
- VorpalWay 7mo agoThere is such a thing as balance. For some reason it tends to be very easy to go overboard in either direction. Also, any metric ceases to be a good metric the moment it becomes a goal. I have observed both of the above statements in many different contexts, they seem to be (somewhat) universal rules for human society.
- ljm 7mo agoI've also observed the third direction, which is the message storm. That's when someone breaks down their point into multiple separate messages, one sentence at a time, when a single coherent paragraph or two would have worked. Why send one message when you can send 7 in rapid succession? It's arguably the most annoying method of communication because it spams your notifications and you have no idea when someone has finished dumping.
- goodmythical 7mo ago“Why waste time say lot word when few word do trick”
- rav3ndust 7mo agolittle offtopic, but speaking of, someone just made a coding agent plugin that makes it save tokens by speaking like caveman