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by rcoveson 2071 days ago
> Teammate: Would you mind sending over this quarter’s product roadmap?

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> Me: I see, so you want me to………sorry, could you repeat that?

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> Teammate: Would you mind sending over this quarter’s product roadmap?

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> Me: You want me to send over this quarter’s product roadmap. Yes, will do!

If I heard this exchange out of context I would sincerely assume it was between a human and a digital assistant circa 2015.

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Not surprising. When we're short on mental bandwidth or distracted, we tend to act like a computer that's run out of cycles.

https://smallbigideas.substack.com/p/understanding-bandwidth...