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> "cleaning up" rough bullet points into a coherent paragraph of text

As a reader of people's paragraphs, please don't. Stick to bullet points.



I'm sure you can have ChatGPT turn a paragraph into bullet points for you. Repeating that n times would be an interesting variation on the game of Telephone.


I have long joked/theorized that the future of communication is bots writing for bots.

   1. Person has brilliant insight
   2. Insight is 3 bullet points
   3. GPT expands into prose (because that's what people think people want)
   4. Reader sees paragraph, thinks "Bah that's long"
   5. Reader uses GPT to extract the 3 core bullet points
I think the most important lesson of anyone's first job is that you have to stop writing like you're in school. There is no minimum word requirement. Only maximum.


But so many writing assignments in jobs have word minimums and hence the problem.


Do they? Even my high school English teacher said "If you write more than N words, I'm stopping at N".

I can't imagine an exec wanting to or having time to read more than a few condensed bullet points. If they have questions, they'll ask.




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