October 20th, 2025
The Value in Less Words
Words are something to read. Words are an investment in time by the speaker, writer, reader, or listener. Words sometimes have liabilities, what is said is sometimes charged at a later date “but you said [ ]”.
Words not said might give others in the room oxygen and time to say their words. One’s own words might not fix a problem yet other’s word might fix the problem.
Words are a form of action. Words are not all action. Nice words are not fixing a car, are not distributing food and water to the poor. “Actions speak louder than words” is a common saying, likely turned up by the many times words have fallen short of ideal solutions.
Words might be seen as a requirement at times. You think something is wrong, you think you have correct data and comprehension, thus you think you are required to give a safety message, a warning. Yet one might not have ideal comprehension and words seen as a fix, will fix the problem might actually break, or create new liabilities instead of making things better.
Concise – in a world full of obfuscation and less than ideal truth, AI and the need to reduce capacity of other’s time, is it difficult to turn up a ton of words, tons of words that might be useful to incur responsibility on others to read, interpret, and invest in at the cost of other’s words and stage time?
Words are a distribution of time. Population is likely to increase over time and not decrease, number of computers is likely to increase and not decrease – this means that more words, more people amplifying and finding useful ways to create words is likely to amplify. It is likely to make words added to feel like a necessity. Oppression and less than ideal justice has existed in the past, and if I don’t add words, the status quo might be likely to continue.
If I keep this document short, it gives people time in other directions, gives computers and tech that could be useful to cure cancer or cause problems for others more time to compute on other words, actions, and code. Kept excessively short might not reinforce that sometimes less words, less requirement to read words written has value.
Words could be a tuning fork without meaning to be a tuning fork. If words talk about a horrible event, people will interpret it in different ways. If words are humor, then some might laugh some might cry and those watching will have more data. A system highly reliant on computers is highly reliant on ifs (if less than or equal to 50 do ActionA, if greater than 50 do ActionB) – words can trigger ifs evaluated, reinforce the value in ifs evaluated – yet to say that is the intent of words, easy to factor in all ifs that are relevant seems unwise.
More words might trigger an if in the reader, long and not concise might equate to thoughts of I don’t have time to read this, it is inconsequential for me not to read this. Yet words given might not be trying to occur that cost on the reader or listener – something else to factor in.
Words are required to help comprehend the value in less words?
More thoughts – https://gemini.google.com/share/fb7435e6a421
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