Tuesday, March 20, 2012

You Don't Know Jack

Your email to Jack, one of your associates: "How did that meeting go?"

Jack's response: "It went very well."

Your analysis:
  1. Jack liked the outcome.
  2. You know little about the meeting's outcome other than that.
  3. Jack thinks his statement was sufficient.
  4. Jack might not want to elaborate.
  5. Jack might be busy.
  6. If he's busy, why didn't he say so?
  7. You've spent more time parsing Jack's response than Jack spent making it.
  8. Aargh.

2 comments:

Bob said...

Generally most assumptions are incorrect since, whatever you think in your imagination is thus imaginary....Imagine living in an imaginary world....

Michael Wade said...

Bob,

So many of our "precise" calculations are rough reckoning.

Michael