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Just because you yourself are OK with being talked to rudely, doesn't mean others are. In fact I'd wager most aren't consciously or unconsciously...
by ikrenji 4mo ago
Just because you yourself are OK with being talked to rudely, doesn't mean others are. In fact I'd wager most aren't consciously or unconsciously...
- not_kurt_godel 4mo agoYeah that attitude will not get you far in life unless you're Steve Jobs, and it'll sink your ship unless you're obnoxiously rich. And even if you're either/both of those things: A. you can and should act better, and B. people will always attach an asshole-asterisk to your name for the rest of your life and probably even a good while after.
- ryandrake 4mo agoExactly. In my 25+ year career, I've encountered maybe two dozen or so people whose e-mails and chats were terse, yet admittedly succinct, one-liners and most of them were also raging assholes to work with. The ones who also didn't use capital letters or punctuation in their communications were uniformly assholes.
- watwut 4mo agoMy experience is completely opposite. Majority of the people send short emails - sometimes badly written, sometimes well written. And when someone sends long emails, people dont read them. They kinda skim them and ignore the rest. And no, they are not all raging assholes.
- not_kurt_godel 4mo agoCorrect, I was referring to being arrogantly blunt and insensitive, not short/efficient emails.
- selcuka 4mo agoI'm pretty sure "rude" in this context means "brief and to the point", not insulting. Otherwise you can be rude with an LLM as well. Most people I know are happy to receive a focused email rather than an LLM-enhanced, 6 paragraph wall of text.
- bigstrat2003 4mo agoBut it's far less rude to just bluntly say something than to send an email generated by an LLM.
- munk-a 4mo agoI think rude was the wrong word to use. I more meant lacking the pomp and circumstance fluff. I always appreciate considerate and polite speech and think it's requisite to being taken seriously. However, I think directness within the bounds of politeness is optimal. Also, if it's wall-o-text or "staging must be updated before our os version is deprecated sunday" I prefer the latter.