Here's simple advice that people often ignore: when you post something long, summarize it yourself. And in the era of LLMs, you have no excuse not to.
You write a Slack message or email once. Ten people read it. If you take 5 extra minutes to make it concise, you save each reader 2 minutes. That's 20 minutes saved—already a net win.
Imagine writing documentation that 100 developers will read. The math becomes overwhelming: your one-time investment saves hundreds of hours collectively.
This is exactly like writing clean code. You write a function once, but it gets read dozens of times. That's why we refactor—one person's effort saves everyone else's time.
With LLMs, creating summaries is trivially easy. Paste your content, ask for a summary, done. There's no technical barrier anymore, no excuse for making readers wade through walls of text.
When your audience is large, being concise isn't just nice, it's efficient. Lead with the main point. Add details after so people can skip what they don't need.