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Re: Sam Altman tweet after being fired

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Not the deepest topic, but: Can someone explain to me why there seems to be such a high correlation between being high on the totem pole and lazy bits of written word? In this case, Sam can't be assed to bother with capital letters. For other people, it's abbreviations or some other unnecessary bit of laziness. I don't get it. In my experience the higher up you are in management the more you do this sort of thing.

It's not uncommon practice that originates from newspapers.

Writing all low case is way to make sure that everybody understand the writing is just a draft, not ready for printing, or not final or official correspondence.

Editor could not just send it to press without proofreading and editing it.

Re: Sam Altman tweet after being fired

#43

Not the deepest topic, but: Can someone explain to me why there seems to be such a high correlation between being high on the totem pole and lazy bits of written word? In this case, Sam can't be assed to bother with capital letters. For other people, it's abbreviations or some other unnecessary bit of laziness. I don't get it. In my experience the higher up you are in management the more you do this sort of thing.

It happens everywhere and with everyone. I wouldn’t read into it that much. Personally I find the lack of capitalism more sincere and I see everyone at every level on the totem do it.

Re: Sam Altman tweet after being fired

#44

Not the deepest topic, but: Can someone explain to me why there seems to be such a high correlation between being high on the totem pole and lazy bits of written word? In this case, Sam can't be assed to bother with capital letters. For other people, it's abbreviations or some other unnecessary bit of laziness. I don't get it. In my experience the higher up you are in management the more you do this sort of thing.

it's soft spokenness conveyed orthographically

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Re: Sam Altman tweet after being fired

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post #8

Not the deepest topic, but: Can someone explain to me why there seems to be such a high correlation between being high on the totem pole and lazy bits of written word? In this case, Sam can't be assed to bother with capital letters. For other people, it's abbreviations or some other unnecessary bit of laziness. I don't get it. In my experience the higher up you are in management the more you do this sort of thing.

It's the same reason Zucky wears a hoodie and Musk smokes blunts on TV. they dgaf :)

I don't know about Zuckerberg but Musk is a workaholic nanomanager. I am quite certain he do gaf. Like, the type that would relentlessly and unilaterally enforce no-tabs in the code base, no matter how many hours wasted.

Re: Sam Altman tweet after being fired

#46

Not the deepest topic, but: Can someone explain to me why there seems to be such a high correlation between being high on the totem pole and lazy bits of written word? In this case, Sam can't be assed to bother with capital letters. For other people, it's abbreviations or some other unnecessary bit of laziness. I don't get it. In my experience the higher up you are in management the more you do this sort of thing.

Not "high on the totem pole" but I type like this on work chat because I want to get the message across quickly and punctation doesn't matter. For emails or other communications I always use proper punctuation.

Re: Sam Altman tweet after being fired

#48

Not the deepest topic, but: Can someone explain to me why there seems to be such a high correlation between being high on the totem pole and lazy bits of written word? In this case, Sam can't be assed to bother with capital letters. For other people, it's abbreviations or some other unnecessary bit of laziness. I don't get it. In my experience the higher up you are in management the more you do this sort of thing.

I’ve had a few company’s I’ve dealt with where the ceo writes: name hi, And it really throws me - I’m spending hours ensuring my emails / communication covers all angles and then they reply with this salutation.

https://phdcomics.com/comics/archive/phd072508s.gif

They're busy and they don't give a damn because they don't have to.

Re: Sam Altman tweet after being fired

#49

Jimmy Apples strikes again. https://twitter.com/apples_jimmy/status/1725615804631392637?... If there was any doubt he had insider knowledge, it's gone now.

orrr he tweets out random stuff and this one happened to line up. this has all the precision of a tarot card
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