Words Have Power • Sigil
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A new way to write for work.
WordsHavePower In the age of machine intelligence, the doc has become a formality. One person turns a sentence-long prompt into a thousand words; the other asks their agent to summarize it in one line. We’re producing countless docs that no one has written and no one will read. But the core of knowledge work is the doc. Docs are how we scale our ideas beyond just ourselves. Where are we going, and why? In our scramble to erase friction, we lost sight of the fact that friction is productive. The right kind of friction sharpens our ideas, our decisions, us. When we don’t write for ourselves,…
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