On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:21:57 -0500, Jim Henderson wrote:

> On Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:53:02 -0500, nemesis wrote:
> 
>> Doesn't matter if you
>> have a clear text with everything needed covered and explained in
>> minute detail:
> 
> That's often the problem, though - people don't *want* the minute
> detail.  They want the overall high-level picture.
> 
> Most people don't care about the details.  Take my example from earlier;
> I don't particularly care that he's adding two lines of code.  I care
> about what the result is - and the result that was explained to me was
> in such minute detail as a single run-on sentence as to be completely
> incomprehensible.

Dang, hit send too soon.

The rest of my thought here is that I found the explanation 
incomprehensible, and I actually understand tech-speak.  If my director, 
VP, or CEO had received it, they'd have likely binned it because the 
language would be completely foreign to them.

Jim

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