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In reply to the discussion: I've been watching people typing here and there. [View all]zipplewrath
(16,646 posts)Unconscious bias tends to harden with age. I've grown a bit wary of these "observations" about millenials that seem to rely heavily upon "you don't do it the way we did". Truth be known, someone who endeavors to be brief and succinct, even if their motivation maybe out of a lack of skill to be verbose, may actually be more productive than someone who generates pages of prose with little content. Skills can be useful, when they are the appropriate skills. But there is the "when all you have is a hammer, the whole world looks like a nail" problem. "Doing something" doesn't always mean "doing something useful". I'm reminded of the saying, "don't confuse someone who is busy, with someone who is getting something done". Typing because you can, doesn't mean typing because you should.
Someone once apologized that they wrote a long letter because they didn't have time to write a short one. Time often can be better spent working to be brief, than working to be prolific.