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I'm sympathetic. It's like if code isn't color-coded and properly indented, I'm just not reading it.

Now we're in the era of:

Alice: Hey ChatGPT, please take this bullet list of points and turn it into a polite, but assertive and persuasive, email to Bob.

Bob: Hey, ChatGPT, please take Alice's email and turn it into a succinct list of bullet points.

> In practice, I find that if I don't format something as a bulleted/numbered list, nobody is going to look at it.

I’m one of those people, if I’m honest. If I’m reading for work, I want the minimum words necessary to get the point across. I’m looking for information, not a story.

If I’m reading for enjoyment though, it’s another thing entirely.

The funny thing was that in school they taught us not to read the standardized tests but to scan and skim them. Which would fit well into a satire of standardized testing.

I was always surprised when my customers read past the first item in a list.