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Subject:Re: What's important From:Patgmason <patgmason -at- AOL -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 27 Jun 1997 09:26:48 -0400
A boss much experienced in dealing with businessmen and politicians once
told me that if a concept cannot be jotted down in one sentence on a 3x5
card, most people will not understand it. Ever. He was right.
Highly educated people too often assume most people 1)read and 2)grasp
their long explanations of things. This is just not true. Even among
other highly educated people.
People need brief, active, interesting statements. Anything else is fine
print specs that only another troubleshooting engineer will ever dig
through.
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