{"id":6682,"date":"2023-06-09T22:48:45","date_gmt":"2023-06-10T05:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=6682"},"modified":"2023-06-09T22:49:30","modified_gmt":"2023-06-10T05:49:30","slug":"seventy-eight-minus-eighty-one-tldr-get-to-the-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/09\/seventy-eight-minus-eighty-one-tldr-get-to-the-point\/","title":{"rendered":"[seventy-eight] minus eighty-two: tl;dr: get to the point"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/20230531_225203-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6683\" width=\"719\" height=\"539\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/20230531_225203-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/20230531_225203-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/20230531_225203-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/20230531_225203-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/20230531_225203.jpg 1503w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 719px) 100vw, 719px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>tl;dr: get to the point in the first line in your emails, and also in the subject.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;TL;DR&#8221; is an acronym meaning &#8220;Too Long; Didn&#8217;t Read&#8221; which is used to introduce a quick summary of a longer document &#8211; as I did in the first line of this email. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Often when writing an email we are working out our own thoughts of what should be communicated or should happen &#8211; which means that the important point usually comes at the end. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But people don&#8217;t often read to the end. So it&#8217;s important, when you get to the end of your email, to port the most important point up to the top (which I typically do with the TL;DR tag).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And, even better, if you can put it in the subject line, do that too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Your email is more likely to work that way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-the Centaur<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pictured: our wedding dragon lamp, sitting on a side table with our wedding DVD, which is sort of a coincidence; and a very cool light bulb. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Discussed: a topic I swear I&#8217;ve written about in this blog, but I cannot find via searching past posts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>tl;dr: get to the point in the first line in your emails, and also in the subject. &#8220;TL;DR&#8221; is an acronym meaning &#8220;Too Long; Didn&#8217;t Read&#8221; which is used to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[272,220,202],"tags":[274,245],"class_list":["post-6682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-startuppery-2","category-technique","category-writing","tag-blogging-every-day","tag-startuppery","ratio-2-1","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6682"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6687,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6682\/revisions\/6687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}