#communicationproblems — Public Fediverse posts

I learned the hard way that words can be weapons.
(No trauma dump, you're good.)

Language is powerful.
Or as I like to say:
Language is load-bearing.

Words have real somatic impact.
They change nervous system state.
And yet tech treats it as.. vibes.
(Words make the body go brrr.)

What happens when language is treated with the same rigor as code?
When nervous system cost is not an abstract idea but part of the equation?
Which communicational failure modes become myths of the past?
(Static types for human language when?)

Imagine people asking:
"Why do you care about language so much?"

And the answer being:
"Because it works."

systemic.engineering explores what happens
when language stops being vibes
and is treated as infrastructure.

Because that's what language is:
The transport layer between divergent realities.
(Be they human or agentic.)

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#SystemicEngineering #SRE #SREforHumans #Language #LanguageAsInfrastructure #Communication #CommunicationProblems #FailureModes #SystemThinking #EpistemicAbuse #Leadership #Regulation

When priorities change, Replies get slower, Conversations get shorter, And situations are blamed.

#PrioritiesChange #LettingGo #CommunicationProblems #LifeShifts #RealityCheck #EmotionalGrowth #TruthHurts #MovingOnQuotes #SelfWorthJourney #Quotes #ShareInspireQuotes

Due to the diversity of viewpoints and how easily they spread, the following has happened.

Firstly, personal judgment has gained an enormously inflated significance. You present facts, but the person responds by saying they don't believe it and gives their own answer back. And vice versa. When someone presents facts, one must either scrutinize them carefully or give up and say "I don't believe it."

Secondly, a situation has been created where a concept can have a dozen definitions, often contradictory or completely different from each other.

As a result, conversations between people start with careful probing to see if you and the person you're talking to are speaking the same language.

It's like the story of the Tower of Babel.

#Communication #Diversity #Facts #Viewpoints #CommunicationProblems

Source: https://fabler.su/display/58f9acad-2063-0e04-1742-1c8513314888

Seriously though, if you're a socialist like myself who's studied #rhetoric or #communication more broadly, you might wanna consider going back to your comms textbooks and re-reading the chapters and thinking about how to apply it to our conversations and organizing

#CommunicationProblems #CommunicationsTheory