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Jan. 28th, 2006 02:25 amI think I'm starting to feel vaguely paranoid, in the non-clinical sense. Not that people are out to get me, particularly, but for instance that I'm being ignored... say, I'll post a thought or explanation to a forum thread, get no response, and a bit later someone else will post essentially the same thing and people will go, "Oh!"
I suspect the actual problem is that I'm not communicating clearly. I should probably take my LJ posts and forum posts as an opportunity to practice these techniques from the George Gopen seminars on "writing from the reader's perspective." It would be an interesting and relatively low-pressure exercise, and maybe it would help. (On the other hand, I already drop an awful lot of posts because I decide they're too much trouble.... Oh, well. If they weren't worth the trouble of typing up by the person most likely to be interested in them, they probably weren't worth the trouble of reading either. Sadly, the inverse is not always true. And I had to check which was inverse and which was converse. I need sleep. Or maybe a math/vocabulary review, but I'm going with the sleep.)
I suspect the actual problem is that I'm not communicating clearly. I should probably take my LJ posts and forum posts as an opportunity to practice these techniques from the George Gopen seminars on "writing from the reader's perspective." It would be an interesting and relatively low-pressure exercise, and maybe it would help. (On the other hand, I already drop an awful lot of posts because I decide they're too much trouble.... Oh, well. If they weren't worth the trouble of typing up by the person most likely to be interested in them, they probably weren't worth the trouble of reading either. Sadly, the inverse is not always true. And I had to check which was inverse and which was converse. I need sleep. Or maybe a math/vocabulary review, but I'm going with the sleep.)