A hill I will die on: The phrase "TL;DR" is anti-intellectual and not a valuable part of Internet culture to invite into professional spaces. Try "Executive summary" or "Summary"; these produce value and don't discourage the creation of it by suggesting that folks write less.
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An important part of respecting user attention: if you're currently writing the canonical place to learn about FOO, it should answer all of the obvious questions about FOO, rather than forcing the user to construct answers by doing forensic research into the FOO project.
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And at the risk of stating the obvious, teaching coworkers to ask "What's the TL;DR on that?" is teaching them to explicitly tell colleagues "My attention is too valuable to consume your work product; repackage it for me." Consider carefully whether that is desirable.
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"Oh no I ask colleagues for that." Start asking for a summary, a précis, the elevator pitch version, a tweet-sized version, etc etc.
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I always thought of TL;DR as being useful for those who don’t have the slightest interest in the topic being discussed but they want to grasp a glimpse of it. More than often TL;DR made me research the topic further: 1. “TL;DR” 2. Aha! I wanna know more about this! 3. Reads more
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But this mostly happens on Reddit during my leisure time not during professional meetings
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wow, well said. Never looked at it that way.
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Bob Posen covers this most excellently in his book.
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