Post AxPfRQwNppJ10Inb8a by Wifiwits@infosec.exchange
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 (DIR) Post #AxN9G3dUYURMgtZg5A by sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social
       2025-08-20T20:12:10Z
       
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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.
       
 (DIR) Post #AxN9G5Cyi2Q7ZFBX28 by paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange
       2025-08-20T20:23:56Z
       
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       @sarahjamielewis yeah, i'm really starting to miss human-written, human-read writing as a form of communication... some days i feel that the ability to write a coherent sentence will be viewed by future generations the same way i view churning one's own butter.
       
 (DIR) Post #AxN9G8U6WotzjEDke0 by sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social
       2025-08-20T20:26:22Z
       
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       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.
       
 (DIR) Post #AxPfOmBEPW8u0ZTcsC by sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social
       2025-08-20T20:38:49Z
       
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       One of the main benefits of working within a document-focused culture is that there is pro-active and ongoing training in how to structure your thoughts, how to convey information, and in how to actively read, understand, and analyze.There is nothing quite like the feeling of being in a silent room watching everyone struggle to understand something you wrote, marking up their own copy with bright red ink. But at the end of the meeting, everyone is better informed.
       
 (DIR) Post #AxPfRQwNppJ10Inb8a by Wifiwits@infosec.exchange
       2025-08-21T08:23:05Z
       
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       @sarahjamielewis one of the benefits of writing the document despite knowing it isn’t going to be read, is one can then point to the document “that you agreed to and signed off” should the proverbial hit the fan. I’ve relied on that a few times.