Nobody Checked Deloitte's Report. One Academic Did. It Cost Them A$97,587.
The people who take the time to read with care are paying for the people who don’t. Here’s the skill I built to keep your own work out of that pile — and why no skill can do the part that matters.
The article discusses the problem of unread documents, where the speed of creation outpaces the effort of reading, leading to real financial and time costs. It proposes integrating AI as a tool within the authorship process to preserve unique choices and ensure work is genuinely read. The author highlights that human attention is now the scarce resource, making being worth reading a significant advantage.
- Many people send or receive documents without fully reading or meaning them.
- The internet has fostered suspicion regarding the content of emails and reports.
- Unread documents that influence decisions incur real financial and time costs.
- Treating authorship as a process with AI as a tool can maintain speed without compromising quality.
- The cost of ‘slop’ is illustrated by examples from a government department, an open-source maintainer, and a federal judge.
- Prompt engineering expertise did not prevent consultants from performing worse in a controlled trial.
- AI speeds up each draft iteration but does not reduce the number of drafts needed to find meaning.
- Human attention is the scarce commodity, and being worth reading is a career advantage.
- A ‘pro-authorship’ skill teaches AI to preserve the author’s protected choices.
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