Comment by rappatic
10 hours ago
i'm gonna write this terrible news in all lowercase cause it's super aesthetic. maintain a bit of professionalism for the 4,000 people whose lives i'm throwing into turmoil? i don't think so, i have my shift key taped over so i don't accidentally show respect to anybody
Interestingly Jerry Yang's letter back in 2008 was also like this and someone pointed that out in HN : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=339513
Does the lowercase convey authenticity or lack of care?
Yes absolutely. Text casing is part of communication, by skipping it an author is saying: "I'm going to prioritise my preferences and making a statement above your understanding and clarity". The bigger the audience the more negative impact it has, and the more entitled the author appears.
Along the same lines though, txt spk to friends is a) far lower impact with the smaller audience, and b) communicates other factors such as what device you're on or how close you are to someone, so this is not me just hating on bad grammar.
Bad grammar is usually lack of care or education or knowledge.
100% lower case is 100% a choice.
Thanks jack dorsey, for letting us know you're that sort of person. At least he refers to himself that way too, although he should sign off with: jack off.
Someone needs to have this conversation with him: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_K-L9uhsBLM
Typically, yes.
It conveys an informality and casualness inappropriate to situation of declaring that you are about to disrupt a few thousand people's life in a massive way. Even posting it to Twitter before everyone has been notified is... a choice.
Some people won't perceive that, but plenty will, and appropriately so.
I severely doubt if the hiring teams at this company would take someone seriously if their application was sent in in this style. I severely doubt that they communicate with their clients and investors this way.
This is a financial services company, it goes with the territory that they should project careful attention to detail.
Even if this was a company in a much less serious industry, this is just not the kind of announcement that a CEO should send out without fixing all the squigly lines that helpfully tell you when you are about to come across as uneducated or unserious.
ur right it dosnt matter. im gonna type all my communications at work like thisn wo. im sure noone will mind. my choice to completely disregard the rules fo english orthography doestn convey anything at all
bro, dO yOu eVEN cARe?
Ha glad to see I'm not the only one irked by that.
He didn't even write it. There's one phrase where there is a curly apostrophe vs a straight apostrophe. He likely only wrote one single phrase in the entire thing and used AI for the rest of it.
This type of thing is the one I look to see if it’s ai generated. Man didn’t even had the care to type.
"make me sound more sincere!"
i like it. it's how you show you didn't use ai to write the message.
"ChatGPT, write a letter to my company about laying 40% of them off but don't capitalize anything"
He 100% used AI to write it.