<aside> 📢 we need to write text that makes people understand what we mean, communication is what people understand, not "just" what we say
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I (@[email protected]) admit that writing isn't easy, even though we've known how to write for many years (we learned it at the base of our education), but even though we've known how to write for many years, we've practiced our writing skills very little.
When I write a thread (text) I have as a premise that the person who will read it doesn't know anything about what I know. This helps us to get out of our heads the things that we think are obvious to everyone and turn what is obvious to me into a text that everyone can understand.
Thread can/should have more than one paragraph, but we must “break the line” using shift + return, this makes the paragraphs stay within the same text, being possible to create thread in Discord: channel organization of the complete text and not broken of text.
Don't just think about the current discussion, think about what words you would use in the future to get to the thread you're writing. You'll probably change a few words.
Right outside Discord: channel organization (in your favorite text editor) and send the text once it's ready.
I have a habit of writing and after the first revision, I do something else/task (not related to the text I need to send). After a while, I go back to the text I need to send (which I wrote) and read it with an “empty” head. Trying to empathize with the person who is going to read it — usually at this point I change some text to make it more understandable.
It's okay to write long texts, as long as you are objective in what you want to communicate, question and learn, but never be prolific.
<aside> 🤦♀️ Imagine calling someone's phone, saying hello and leaving them waiting…
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The same goes for:
Just ask the question! 😫
Note that Keith could have got his answer minutes sooner, and needn't have kept Tim waiting. In fact, Tim could have started thinking about the question right away!
People who do this are generally trying to be polite by not jumping right into the request, like one would in person or on the phone — and that's great! But it's 2022 and chat is neither of those things. For most people, typing is much slower than talking. So despite the best intentions, you're actually just making the other person wait for you to phrase your question, which is lost productivity (and kind of annoying).
Read this site to understand how to communicate better asynchronously.