People write with headers and bullets when they don’t have any content. It looks like a PowerPoint slide, not for brevity, but to hide that they didn’t do any work. They aren’t summarizing, the bullet points are the work.

Good reminder that I need to clear out a bunch of excessive formatting for the next blogpost I am writing.

I am a massive headings and bullet point use in AI defender. Specifically because when I ask AI a question I am not looking for writing, I am looking for an answer to my question, or a walk-through/procedure how to do things, and in both cases heavily formatted text is the easiest to parse and read non-sequentially.

As for why I think I have a bad formatting addiction, I am tempted to partially blame it on my reading, which is largely academic texts, where everything is heavily formatted. I think this is the case for similar reasons. Considering that most of the scientists I know do not read a paper from beginning to end and instead go Figures->Captions->Conclusions->Intro->Theory->Results (or some similar order)

So anyway, disordered reading is another argument for lots of formatting

Structured-meaning REQUIRES structured-communication.

THAT is WHY projects which don’t have visual-spacial renditions of their models are more-likely to fail/die, than those who do have such visual-spacial accurate domain-models.

Can’t remember the name of the English mathematician who identified this, but it checks out.

( this isn’t to say that form-addiction isn’t a fetish of many: it is, but that’s a separate issue )

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