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Turn my rambling into something I can send
Talk at it for a paragraph. Get back the point you were circling.
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Updates as you typeHere's everything in my head about this: ok so the handover process is broken, or not broken but nobody knows who owns a ticket after 6pm, and we keep having the same argument on monday about it. I think the real issue is we never agreed what counts as urgent. tom says it's covered in the runbook but the runbook was written before the on-call change. also nobody reads the runbook. I want to propose we just have one person named per night and a two line rule for what wakes them up, but I don't want it to sound like I'm blaming tom It needs to become: a proposal It's for: my team lead, who knows the on-call rota changed but not that it caused this Before you write anything, do two things: - Tell me, in one sentence, what you think my actual point is. If you've got that wrong, everything after it is wrong too, and I'd rather correct you now. - Tell me which bits of that are the same idea said more than once, and which bits are a different argument that probably belongs somewhere else. Then write it as a proposal, in my words rather than corporate ones. Keep the specifics and the examples. Cut the hedging. At the end, list anything I said that you left out, so I can put it back if it mattered.
What you get: Your point in one sentence, then a clean draft, with a list of what got cut.
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One sentence, before anything else
A braindump usually has two arguments tangled together and one of them is the real one. Making the model state the point in a single sentence before it writes gives you a five second check, and it's cheap to say "no, that's the other thing" and go again.
The list of what got cut stops the tidying from eating the one detail that made your case.
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