Oh, one thing that totally didn’t occur to me was that PONDS was meant to illustratively evoke the sub-words. I think if the post did more work to make that actively salient, that’d help a bit. But, not perfectly
I think an important piece of mnemonics is to evoke both the initial-trigger state, and the desired end state (and perhaps the obstacle to avoid/route-around as you get to the end state). So in this case, somehow I want to have the experience:
notice I’m about to write internet comments
notice what sort of comments I’m about to write, and in particular if they are PONDS.
change what I write
In order for PONDS to be memorable, I need an illustrative bridge from commenting (Without necessarily noticing that I’m writing PONDS) to to actively reflecting on my communication goals.
Oh, one thing that totally didn’t occur to me was that PONDS was meant to illustratively evoke the sub-words. I think if the post did more work to make that actively salient, that’d help a bit. But, not perfectly
I think an important piece of mnemonics is to evoke both the initial-trigger state, and the desired end state (and perhaps the obstacle to avoid/route-around as you get to the end state). So in this case, somehow I want to have the experience:
notice I’m about to write internet comments
notice what sort of comments I’m about to write, and in particular if they are PONDS.
change what I write
In order for PONDS to be memorable, I need an illustrative bridge from commenting (Without necessarily noticing that I’m writing PONDS) to to actively reflecting on my communication goals.