I have been writing documents a bit for my recent project but recently a few of the users of these documents came and asked me about certain things. After a few questions, sometimes my answer would be, “It is in the document.” To be fair, this happened I think only twice but enough to occur to me that people might actually not read what I wrote? I mean that is not surprising for this blog, in the sea of writings in the internet, and with so many AI slops, but this is work related and required.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
WordPress asked me to update my website today, right before I wanted to write a post, this post, and I just clicked all the blue highlighted text. Basically all the hyperlinks. Then in a list of items to update, I just click the ‘Select All’ button and pressed update. I think the updates were something about security of the website due to plugins being outdated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Then I was reminded of how disappointed I was when people didn’t (properly ) read my documents. Yes, I am guilty of it too and I realise that it’s a bit hard to find the time to go through walls of text, when you can do something more interesting. Also, relating back to my colleagues, when I mentioned where the texts or related items are, they went back and easily implemented what was written. It is hard to start something, from reading a set of instructions, compared to finding the details that you needed when you are stuck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I also think my writings need to be improved, as can be seen from this post. AI helped a lot in me writing concise email but I think they are stilted and feels scripted, but it definitely make for easier reading. Finding the balance, as always, is hard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Thank you for reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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