RE: Priorities (was RE: Yahoo has no staff tech writers)

Subject: RE: Priorities (was RE: Yahoo has no staff tech writers)
From: "Dick Margulis " <margulis -at- mail -dot- fiam -dot- net>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 11:25:29 -0400


John Posada <JPosada -at- book -dot- com> wrote:

>
>First, let me say that I attempted this response three times before this,
>before I was able to phrase the way I felt. We've tangled on this grammar
>issue before.
>

John, I'm not trying to tangle, and I wasn't trying to provoke you. I took part of what you said, out of context, to start a discussion of different approaches to prioritization, not to attack you. If you discarded the first three essays because of anger, I apologize. If you discarded them for some other reason, never mind; let's move on.

>Ideally...90% of the grammar is addressed at the time of writing, while most
>of everything else is happening. The trick is to get as much lower priority
>stuff in while you have the ability to do so.

Yes. That is exactly what I was getting at. Devote some small part of your available resources (your time) to the C priority items as you go along. Your practice conforms exactly to mine, although that was not apparent from the way you described it ealier in the thread.

>
>But...there comes as time, at the end, when triage comes into play.
>

Again, I agree. As I said yesterday, good enough is good enough (not an original thought, I know).


>I have enough time to do 2 things...what 2 do I choose. It may be me, but
>I'm not going to take ANY time away from accuracy and deadline so that I can
>correct some grammar. At a certain point, I only have two hands...it may be
>a wrong approach, but it is mine.
>

I don't think your approach is wrong. I didn't get that from your earlier posts, though.

Dick

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