If It Hasn't Passed Through Your Brain, Is It Your Message?
We're drafting every message by instruction and pasting the result. I think it makes us worse.
People are drafting and redrafting every communication from their mouths, communicating by instruction that gets turned into pasted text. It’s a fundamental change to human to human communication. And if it hasn’t passed through your brain, are you really retaining the information?
I think it makes us worse. It’s definitely made me start to feel bad, or suboptimal, if I just trust my own writing. But my writing’s OK. It’s often chaos, so I have to structure and edit myself, because I get verbose and tend not to lay things out right first time around. I’m an OK editor, I think. A strength, if you will.
My typing voice and my speaking voice are very different. When I’m typing I’m scrutinising, editing as I go, writing, erasing. When I’m talking it’s much more free-flowing, but is it lower quality? I might make a lot of points but struggle to get right to the crux of the issue.