to communicate well
musings, examples, and insights on good communication
by sari and · updated 1mo ago
to communicate well
“The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place, but, far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.”
(Dorothy Nevill)
simon added 1mo ago
Sam Liebeskind added 2mo ago
If you work on anything worthwhile, sooner or later people will care about it and will want you to send progress updates. These could be quarterly investor updates, weekly updates to your boss, emails to adjacent teams, etc. Here are tips on how to do this well.
Understand your role, and with each update add to the body of evidence that you’re a goo
Sam Liebeskind added 3mo ago
- I just got some (personally) mindblowing advice, re: a message that felt overdue: You don't have to explain yourself. Say, '"Thanks for your patience; it took longer than I expected to get back to you." and then move on with it! 🤯
Stuart Evans added 4mo ago
Sam Liebeskind added 4mo ago
alex added 4mo ago
alex added 4mo ago
- What you allow your milieu to feed into your mind is what you will be processing. It is what will carve the pathways of your brain. This is perhaps well-understood, in theory if not in practice.
But it is equally important to consider who and what you are sending output to.from First We Shape Our Social Graph; Then It Shapes Us by Henrik Karlsson
Laura Pike Seeley added 5mo ago
What is my impact
Closed questions are also bad questions. Instead of surrendering power, the questioner is imposing a limit on how the question can be answered.
from How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen by David Brooks
simon added 5mo ago
- The 37signals Guide to Internal Communication The how, where, why, and when we communicate. Long form asynchronous? Real-time chat? In-person? Video? Verbal? Written? Via email? In Basecamp? How do we keep everyone in the loop without everyone getting tangled in everyone else’s business? It’s all in here. Rules of thumb, and general philosophy B... See more
Sam Liebeskind added 6mo ago