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Thanks for giving a good name to a piece of advice I frequently repeat.

Often it can be as simple as cut-pasting the last paragraph of an email to the top.




Unfortunately I can't take credit [0], and I think I originally heard this term from a military friend. But it stuck with me, and it has definitely improved my communications.

And I wholly agree re: the last paragraph. It's surprising how often the last thing in a very long missive turns out to be a perfect summary/BLUF.

- [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLUF_(communication)




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