to communicate well
musings, examples, and insights on good communication
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to communicate well
“The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place, but, far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.”
(Dorothy Nevill)
If you work on anything worthwhile, sooner or later people will care about it and will want you to send progress updates. These could be quarterly investor updates, weekly updates to your boss, emails to adjacent teams, etc. Here are tips on how to do this well.
Understand your role, and with each update add to the body of evidence that you’re a goo
I just got some (personally) mindblowing advice, re: a message that felt overdue:
You don't have to explain yourself.
Say, '"Thanks for your patience; it took longer than I expected to get back to you."
and then move on with it!
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Are You a Jerk, or a Liar?
usefulfictions.substack.com
What you allow your milieu to feed into your mind is what you will be processing. It is what will carve the pathways of your brain. This is perhaps well-understood, in theory if not in practice.
But it is equally important to consider who and what you are sending output to.
But it is equally important to consider who and what you are sending output to.
Henrik Karlsson • First We Shape Our Social Graph; Then It Shapes Us
What is my impact
Closed questions are also bad questions. Instead of surrendering power, the questioner is imposing a limit on how the question can be answered.