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Post by cutemonster »

Jon_Lowtek wrote: post #186
cutemonster wrote: post #177

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Many people -- everyone? -- repeat what was said? Not sure I follow

You are right, the extreme value where everyone everytime repeats what was said before, to ensure common understanding, is an unlikely example. My point is that repeating information already present lowers information density. The "good habit of repeating what you understood" can quickly become very annoying.

Ok. Maybe it's enough that the one who is "the most responsible" for getting the things done, repeats

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Post by abalashov »

sdoering wrote: post #136
abalashov wrote: post #104

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Yeah, it's really unfortunate that inline replying effectively died out, replaced by top-posting. I think inline replies, while lending themselves to the selective quotation problem you mention, nevertheless force more careful consideration of the original text.

I agree. I still do this. But nowadays lot of people feedback that they do not understand my way of replying. Compared to many of my early digital acquaintances I was socialized quite late on the internet starting in 97. Compared to my colleagues I often feel old and out of sync with my style of long form written communication.

I have this same problem and would describe it similarly.

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Post by vackosar »

duxup wrote: post #26
jackjeff wrote: post #9

Async communication is suitable to resolve some kind of issues. But it has two drawbacks: participants need to be competent at writing and reading prose (it’s harder than it sounds) and even with the best of care your ideas can easily be misinterpreted resulting in the loss of an async cycle. For problems which are not well defined, and where a lot of decisions need to be taken, especially when they verge toward the…

Recently, I was so frustrated with some folks poor reading comprehension that I was thinking about an imaginary communication system that would allow for decision making where there were some rules: - No responding from mobile devices. The poor response rate is just too high. - The reader is quizzed on the the contents of the communication before they can respond (randomly generated quizzes might be amusing). - The r…

Hi! I recently opened my quiz generation service to public. Would you try out the quiz AI assistant at https://QuizRecall.com and let me know what would you need to be added to make useful also for your use case?

Re: Written communication is remote work super power

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Post by vackosar »

vackosar wrote: post #193
duxup wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Recently, I was so frustrated with some folks poor reading comprehension that I was thinking about an imaginary communication system that would allow for decision making where there were some rules: - No responding from mobile devices. The poor response rate is just too high. - The reader is quizzed on the the contents of the communication before they can respond (randomly generated quizzes might be amusing). - The r…

Hi! I recently opened my quiz generation service to public. Would you try out the quiz AI assistant at https://QuizRecall.com and let me know what would you need to be added to make useful also for your use case?

Give the quizzes at the end of the blog posts a shot:

- https://vaclavkosar.com/ml/starspace-embedding

- https://quizrecall.com/rack/Cynefin-Framework--Making-The-Be...

I use the service for personal training, but it is opened for others now as well.

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