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Subject:RE: A wee story for you... From:Mark Levinson <MarkL -at- gilian -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Sun, 17 Jun 2001 14:59:07 +0300
Summarizing an anecdote, Andrew remarks:
> things that concern you don't always concern other people.
> IT and product managers are rarely interested in the fonts
> you use the tools you pick.
But if that was in the story, I missed it. I didn't notice
anyone saying to the writer, "Just use whatever fonts and
tools you want." Nor did I notice anyone saying "Just use
what we've always used and stop whining," but in my humble
experience the "stop whining" is at least as common as the
"whatever."
Or to elaborate, "Because the things we manage are so much
more important than technical writing, we therefore can make
better decisions about anything, including technical writing,
than a technical writer can." It sometimes seems to me that
when you're dealing with people who routinely gamble hundreds
of thousands of dollars and dozens of jobs on business decisions
that can never amount to much more than guesswork, you almost
have to run into that kind of megalomania.
Mark L. Levinson
managing writer/editor
Gilian Technologies
The last line of defense against hacker sabotage
www.gilian.com
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