This is a side-note, but I find it off-putting when people use “impressive” when they want something that’s like “awesome” but more formal-sounding. (This usage seems to be fairly common in the EA community, for some reason.) I’m sure that you understand the difference between the two, and that you actually terminally care about people doing awesome things, not manufacturing resume items, but to a casual reader it might sound like the latter.
This is a side-note, but I find it off-putting when people use “impressive” when they want something that’s like “awesome” but more formal-sounding. (This usage seems to be fairly common in the EA community, for some reason.) I’m sure that you understand the difference between the two, and that you actually terminally care about people doing awesome things, not manufacturing resume items, but to a casual reader it might sound like the latter.
Synonym brainstorming:
awesome: useful to humanity, value-generating, vital, wonderful, excellent, marvelous
impressive: radical, sui generis, irreplaceable, important, game-changing, mind-changing
Thanks, it actually hadn’t occurred to me that it might be read that way.
Edit: Changed “impressive” in title to “outstanding.”
“outstanding” still has some of the same connotations to me, although less so. But I may be in the minority here.
Thanks again. I’ll have to think about how we might best frame it.