I came across Steph Ango’s Concise explanations accelerate progress:

If you want to progress faster, write concise explanations. Explain ideas in simple terms, strongly and clearly, so that they can be rebutted, remixed, reworked — or built upon.

Concise explanations spread faster because they are easier to read and understand. The sooner your idea is understood, the sooner others can build on it.

I struggle with conciseness. I tend to veer verbose and ramble through what I write and explain. Because I want to give the other person a chance to see what I was thinking as I was going through something.

Steph Ango says If you’re remote, ramble:

A tip for remote teams of 2-10 people. Create a personal “ramblings” channel for each teammate in your team’s chat app of choice.

Ramblings channels let everyone share what’s on their mind without cluttering group channels. Think of them as personal journals or microblogs inside your team’s chat app, a lightweight way to add ambient social cohesion.

I love this idea! I genuinely think the more we write and share the better, and I’ve noticed the effect of similar things that grew out of working remotely with people.

I’m in Bengaluru to attend a friend’s wedding, and it has been fascinating walking around and seeing “the creative ways” of cable management, and my perspective from Singapore and Sweden is definitely to question the safety and longevity.

As I was writing up angry at the genie, about getting frustrated at a bot for not having my context, I realized I’d done the same thing to a human colleague just months earlier.

A new colleague has been speed-running five years of my accumulated context, and I was getting really annoyed at all their questions. Why weren’t they making any reasonable assumptions? They’re a human after all, with decades of experience. In hindsight, I think that’s exactly why they’re not assuming and instead clarifying.