I’m a decent enough typist that when someone is speaking at a thoughtful pace—no word vomit, mind you—I can type their thoughts out verbatim (with plenty of typos and messy punctuation, of course). These typing skills come in handy for one of my key job functions—extractor of information. I spend at least an hour or … Continue reading The downside of taking verbatim meeting notes
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A return to memo-writing & the “vagueness and nonsense” of conversation
In the past few weeks, I've finally had the time to dive into a couple of those big, monster projects—the type that you always talk about getting around to, but something more urgent always seems to come up. And yet here I am, with a pause in ongoing proposals (my firm is saturated with work), … Continue reading A return to memo-writing & the “vagueness and nonsense” of conversation
Taylor Coe 