{"id":4023,"date":"2023-12-07T01:01:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-07T06:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=4023"},"modified":"2023-11-18T08:12:32","modified_gmt":"2023-11-18T13:12:32","slug":"you-do-not-know-with-whom-you-speak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2023\/12\/you-do-not-know-with-whom-you-speak\/","title":{"rendered":"You Do Not Know With Whom You Speak"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>A text without a context is a pretext. Know the audience. Sorry, these are old basics but they still apply.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Do you know who I am?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That question is a biting indictment of a person who approaches another in ignorance and starts talking in grand fashion about what might be grand ideas, but probably are not. It is also a biting indictment of the person asking the question. &#8220;Surely, sir, if you recognized me and my importance you would not be speaking as you are.&#8221; Arrogance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Enough questions. Now for some answers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Context when attempting to convey information is important. Knowing the audience is important. Start talking without these, and it just won&#8217;t work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Know the audience. Know what the audience knows. Don&#8217;t waste their time telling them something they already know. Put the information in context. It is possible to discuss matters already known by the audience if a new facet of the information is also discussed. &#8220;We all know that water boils at 212\u00b0 F, but we have learned how to change that with new techniques and that brings us to a new perspective on our organization. Please, lend an ear.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Context. Audience. Old concepts for communication, but they still apply.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips A text without a context is a pretext. Know the audience. Sorry, these are old basics but they still apply. &#8220;Do you know who I am?&#8221; That question is a biting indictment of a person who approaches another in ignorance and starts talking in grand fashion about what might be grand ideas, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,435,310,106],"tags":[154,438,311,220],"class_list":["post-4023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","category-context","category-information","category-knowledge","tag-communication","tag-context","tag-information","tag-knowledge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4024,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4023\/revisions\/4024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}