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Generated text takes seconds to send and minutes to read. I suspect the norm gets set by whoever has the most authority in the thread.

This is a short post. By design.

Generated text takes a few seconds to send. Several minutes to read. For one person to save a minute. For three people to lose five minutes each. It seems like a weird bargain with people you like to work with.

for handwritten messages the writer spends more effort than the reader; for generated text the writer spends almost none and the reader spends much more.writerreaderwritten by handwriterreadergenerated, pastedeffort spent
Generated text doesn’t remove the effort. It moves it to the person reading.

The team all mimics whoever is the most senior in the thread. If the manager sends a weekly email with four paragraphs pasted in the body of the email, that is the new definition of update. I had a longer version of this written up. A bunch of fluff.

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