I think there are separate worthwhile skills of “focus on learning empathy/modeling and let clear language flow from that”, and also “writing skills exist that are separate from epistemics” (such as brevity, which I think actually factors in here a bit)
Something that may not have been clear from my past discussion is that when I say “this could have been written in a way that was less triggering”, or something, I’m not (usually) meaning that to be a harsh criticism. Just, the sort of thing that you should say ‘ah, that makes sense. I will work on that’ for the future.
Just, the sort of thing that you should say ‘ah, that makes sense. I will work on that’ for the future.
It’s actually not clear to me that I should work on that. As a professional hazard of my other career, I’m pretty used to people trying to use “You would be more persuasive if you were nicer” as an attempted silencing tactic; if I just believed everyone who told me that, I would never get anything done.
I think there are separate worthwhile skills of “focus on learning empathy/modeling and let clear language flow from that”, and also “writing skills exist that are separate from epistemics” (such as brevity, which I think actually factors in here a bit)
Something that may not have been clear from my past discussion is that when I say “this could have been written in a way that was less triggering”, or something, I’m not (usually) meaning that to be a harsh criticism. Just, the sort of thing that you should say ‘ah, that makes sense. I will work on that’ for the future.
It’s actually not clear to me that I should work on that. As a professional hazard of my other career, I’m pretty used to people trying to use “You would be more persuasive if you were nicer” as an attempted silencing tactic; if I just believed everyone who told me that, I would never get anything done.