Edit to say because I kinda feel bad now: I have nothing against English teachers! Please don’t send your mafia of learned lit nerds after me! …Or do, lit nerds are hot.

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    you laugh until your STEM-only software engineer tries to write marketing copy, he circumnavigated the marketing department and sent the ads at a conference straight to the contact without getting it approved.

    I can’t post the text as it’ll dox me but here’s an approximation, about running, but instead imagine it’s a software product

    #NO RUNNING

    or exercise

    ^just ^running ^ability ^made ^better

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      Yeah I made the mistake of learning to write well in high school then majoring in engineering and being good at it. Unfortunately that meant I was the designated person in group projects for both doing the thing and writing it up

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        yeah but we all, unfortunately, need jobs, and jobs are at companies, and companies make money from sales, sales happen on a market, and you need marketing so people know it exists.

        I’d happily abolish the whole stack for a free house, garden, entertainment and groceries for life.

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          Marketing these days goes far beyond putting out awareness of existence (that step I’m aware of and support - it’s great when a YouTube ad shows something interesting I actually need). These days it’s all psychological reinforcement of an invented need.

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          Just working utilities. Send text files as marketing copy. If everyone did that it’d be fine.

          “This is what we make, at this price. Reply to inquire. Goodbye”.txt

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            that is precisely what SERP and sales prospecting marketing is. Except paid SERP placement and plaintext email displayed in a browser or email client rather than a text editor.

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      Circumnavigated? Like, sent it around to everyone in marketing, one after another?

      That…doesn’t make much sense in the context you provided. Autocorrupt strikes again?