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Yeah, no. "I'm okay, the bull is dead", followed by "the car is damaged but operable" is not an effective way to communicate what happened. The goal of communication is not to force the other party to fill in a bunch of blanks and solve a puzzle to understand what you are talking about.

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It is, as a blog post, an effective way of communicating the idea though (because it’s very emotionally charged).

I read this earlier today, liked it, and had a bit of fridge logic since. Obviously it’s dumb to communicate a datapoint upfront when you don’t bring it up again at all and follow up with “details later”. But it’s still very present in my mind because “the bull is dead” is so catchy.

I’m a big fan of BLUF (bottom line upfront) when writing emails and this is an extension of that.

TIL fridge logic

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fridge_logic

But it is the quickest way to communicate the current state.

There was no rush though

"Car accident, I'm okay" is shorter and less vague.

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