Faster-than-text

Thoughts forming around reducing the effort between having and realizing a text oriented idea

Theory

• Spectrum of 15 WPM (handwriting) to 160 WPM (speech)
  • Devon see Comparison of text editing methods
• Josh W Comeau on Talon
  • https://www.joshwcomeau.com/blog/hands-free-coding/
• "Talking is faster than typing, even for a fast typist"
  • Serenade.ai
• On conversational assistants / compressing words into an abstraction
  • Challenge of learning the DSL / discovering capabilities for a new voice assistant
  • Akin to how you ramp up on new keyboard shortcuts until they're subconscious
    • Sublime book w/ wesbos, Shortcut Foo for spaced rep
    • Commit to learning 1 snippet at a time
  • Further notes: snips.ai pitch (pre acquisition) at DDNYC, Google IO notes w/ Qin in 2019

Tangents

Even faster talking

• Aside
  • "Spreading" (contraction of speed + reading) in debate (Resolved, 2007): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resolved_(film)
  • 350 WPM!! https://www.wired.com/2012/01/ff-debateteam/

CEO practices

Skin in the game test: people who have limited time, many responsibilities, decisions to make with high impact on many people

• CEO Time Management Firstround
  • Templates for No (being explicit with yourself about what you have already said Yes to makes this easier)
  • Email hygiene / batching
  • Transcribing when possible
  • Playbooks
    • If you do something more than 3 times, write down process (either words or code, see #low-code) or delegate if appropriate
  • Practice at internal/external meetings
    • Having purpose / agenda, efficient follow-up updates
  • Spreading attitude of pragmatism by checking on peoples' blockers and empowering people to take action where appropriate

Implementation

• For coding: Talon / Serenade
• Text Snippets / Autoexpander (see Khe Hy's on The Life Changing Magic of Text Expanders
  • I mainly use for git aliases
• For notes: notability (sync audio with handdrawn diagrams)
• Empirically: huge quality of life improvement in Duolingo when they added builtin transcription
• Dictation in native iOS / Drafts app
• Otter AI for meeting notes
• Review Spacy ecosystem / conversational AI libs

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Backlinks

• Mentoring (vault)