I spent a large chunk of my early career in organizations that were very document-focused.
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I spent a large chunk of my early career in organizations that were very document-focused.
It was expected that you would write documents.
It was expected that you read the documents that others wrote.
It was expected that time be scheduled during meetings to ensure the document was read.
It was understood that in order to arrive at the intended understanding that you read all the words.
If a short summary could have conveyed the same information, the author would have written that instead.
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M monkee@other.li shared this topic
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I spent a large chunk of my early career in organizations that were very document-focused.
It was expected that you would write documents.
It was expected that you read the documents that others wrote.
It was expected that time be scheduled during meetings to ensure the document was read.
It was understood that in order to arrive at the intended understanding that you read all the words.
If a short summary could have conveyed the same information, the author would have written that instead.
The way I write today is heavily influenced by that culture, and it clashed hard with reality when I left.
I learned to adapt to the general reality that many people will not read a document of any length, or will only read the first few paragraphs.
I tend to disengage very quickly when it becomes obvious that someone did not do the work.
This was a problem long before the rise of llms, but one that is certainly being exacerbated by them.
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M monkee@chaos.social shared this topic