Have people lost the ability to read?
Jun. 17th, 2020 12:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caffeineI send out an email to a group of people based on a meeting earlier in the week:
I built a prototype of the thing we talked about - here is the link - it is specific to these three groups, each one is a tab on the thing
We talked about doing this dynamically, but there is no data to do that, so we will need to build a thing for each group that needs it.
I asked for feedback from persons A, B, and C. Only person B provided feedback and said it gives them what they need.
In order to do it dynamically, we need the a bunch of data on a bunch of records and then some automation and new things to make use of it [high-level description of data needed]
What is the first thing I get back?
"Is this dynamic for everyone?"
Argh. It is not like you even needed to get to the long part of how we get there, it was literally in the first sentence! And the second sentence!
I did not even get into decisions needed or implementation details, just explained what data we would need to do the summaries and dynamic bits they want.
I get it, people are busy, and don't like reading anything more than a headline or the old 140 character limit tweet. But geez, if you are going to ask a question, please read enough to see that it is already answered. The email was only 3 paragraphs, and even on my laptop screen you don't need to scroll to see all of it.
I built a prototype of the thing we talked about - here is the link - it is specific to these three groups, each one is a tab on the thing
We talked about doing this dynamically, but there is no data to do that, so we will need to build a thing for each group that needs it.
I asked for feedback from persons A, B, and C. Only person B provided feedback and said it gives them what they need.
In order to do it dynamically, we need the a bunch of data on a bunch of records and then some automation and new things to make use of it [high-level description of data needed]
What is the first thing I get back?
"Is this dynamic for everyone?"
Argh. It is not like you even needed to get to the long part of how we get there, it was literally in the first sentence! And the second sentence!
I did not even get into decisions needed or implementation details, just explained what data we would need to do the summaries and dynamic bits they want.
I get it, people are busy, and don't like reading anything more than a headline or the old 140 character limit tweet. But geez, if you are going to ask a question, please read enough to see that it is already answered. The email was only 3 paragraphs, and even on my laptop screen you don't need to scroll to see all of it.
