I always wonder, if I’m like experiencing extreme privilege or something, in that I’m able to write words to express what I want to say.
Like, I don’t know, I’ve got a colleague who’s probably got dyslexia and also sometimes struggles with how to word things in English. I can understand that he finds it useful for that.
But personally, I always think that if I would’ve wanted it to be written differently, I would’ve written it differently. I do not want a machine to put words into my mouth, because they will inevitably be different from what I wanted to say.
It’s an immense privilege that in first world countries all people theoretically have the right to obtain. That’s one of the purposes of general education, but through a lot of failures between schools, parents, students, and society at large it’s become less universal than it should be.
“Why do I have to keep writing pointless essays about stupid books?” Because you need to be able to interpret a text and communicate clearly in the written word, and these are both harder than it seems. Furthermore, it’s often the students who haven’t gotten it yet that complain the most. I know I did. I wasn’t just frustrated with the books I didn’t like or the long hours writing, I was frustrated with how I struggled to really understand how to write naturally and effectively.
And I should add, I’m both (mildly) dyslexic and dyscalcic. I write fairly well if I do say so myself, and I’m an engineer, so these aren’t insurmountable challenges
at work we are recommended to put things through AI to sound more ⚡️E X E C U T I V E ⚡️🔥🔥🔥🤙
so you do something like, “Got new images from design” and it’ll rephrase to “Aligned on tactical operations with communications dept and successfully launched adoption of new collateral”
It’s been eye-opening to see how much “leadership” is just “heavily reword simple things into complicated language to make them sound more impressive”
You left out “yet vague and unaccountable.”
It’s been eye-opening to see how much “leadership” is just “heavily reword simple things into complicated language to make them sound more impressive”
I’ve been thinking this for years. After I manage to descramble management’s latest directives into something comprehensible I like to break it down in team meetings so we can all make fun of it together.
Sauce?
A recent episode of Colbert’s Late Show; I remember seeing this segment, should be on the YouTube page.
