Comments on: Remember when you used to suck? http://www.beawesomeonline.com/remember-when-you-used-to-suck You'll start & grow a website that's as awesome as you are. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:58:09 +1000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: 5 minute mission: Test your readability | Be Awesome Online http://www.beawesomeonline.com/remember-when-you-used-to-suck/comment-page-1#comment-202 5 minute mission: Test your readability | Be Awesome Online Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:45:40 +0000 http://www.beawesomeonline.com/?p=130#comment-202 [...] 2. To avoid the Curse of Knowledge (Learn more in Remember when you used to suck?) [...] [...] 2. To avoid the Curse of Knowledge (Learn more in Remember when you used to suck?) [...]

]]> By: Catherine Caine http://www.beawesomeonline.com/remember-when-you-used-to-suck/comment-page-1#comment-40 Catherine Caine Wed, 06 Jan 2010 13:06:59 +0000 http://www.beawesomeonline.com/?p=130#comment-40 Great point! I'm sure we've all been through training where we really want to learn the content but still find it hard to slog through to the important material. Great point! I'm sure we've all been through training where we really want to learn the content but still find it hard to slog through to the important material.

]]> By: Mike Korner http://www.beawesomeonline.com/remember-when-you-used-to-suck/comment-page-1#comment-39 Mike Korner Wed, 06 Jan 2010 12:48:41 +0000 http://www.beawesomeonline.com/?p=130#comment-39 Lots of great thoughts here Catherine. It's always challenging to achieve the right balance of clear, complete, and concise. "Clear" is useless if the work is incomplete, and "complete" is great but few people want to read a 500 page document. I guess that finding this balance is why good writers get the big bucks :) By the way, I think the curse of knowledge also affects readers because the boredom can affect their ability to concentrate long enough to get to the "good stuff". Lots of great thoughts here Catherine. It's always challenging to achieve the right balance of clear, complete, and concise. “Clear” is useless if the work is incomplete, and “complete” is great but few people want to read a 500 page document. I guess that finding this balance is why good writers get the big bucks :) By the way, I think the curse of knowledge also affects readers because the boredom can affect their ability to concentrate long enough to get to the “good stuff”.

]]> By: Kevin Powe http://www.beawesomeonline.com/remember-when-you-used-to-suck/comment-page-1#comment-15 Kevin Powe Sat, 28 Nov 2009 11:22:24 +0000 http://www.beawesomeonline.com/?p=130#comment-15 Having been in umpteen project meetings for larger projects, I've really seen the "Don't get fiddly" rule demonstrated with bad examples again and again. Sometimes you get the feeling that people are only going through details to be able to expound what they know to a captive audience. You can see people switching off one by one, until the whole room is turned into a zombie mob. Being able to keep what you say to the bare minimum that's useful to other people is definitely a fine art, and one that requires constant practice. You make some really great points in this post, so I thought I'd take the time to comment while working on my latest! Kudos! Having been in umpteen project meetings for larger projects, I’ve really seen the “Don’t get fiddly” rule demonstrated with bad examples again and again. Sometimes you get the feeling that people are only going through details to be able to expound what they know to a captive audience. You can see people switching off one by one, until the whole room is turned into a zombie mob.

Being able to keep what you say to the bare minimum that’s useful to other people is definitely a fine art, and one that requires constant practice.

You make some really great points in this post, so I thought I’d take the time to comment while working on my latest! Kudos!

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