I've been writing more lately. Emails, tweets, chatting, texts, tutorials, etc. Its mostly work related and I've been analyzing what I'm saying. I use weasel words professionally more then I'd like, ie at all. I've done a good job of removing 'just' from my lexicon but I've replaced it with squishy phrases.
Things to remove from my writings and speech:
- in general
- it seems
- basically
- mostly
I'll try and add more as I go. I've become a team lead in the past month so my words feel heavier. With this weight I feel my words should be more direct. Conserved in some way. I am trying to do this by removing the weasel words and phrases. This may come across as false confidence so I will need to keep things squishy I'm unsure of. If I remain direct even with my uncertainty I believe this will create the effect I'm looking for.
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