Series · read in order · 6 parts · ~75 min
Teaching Point your voice.
Voice isn't a setting you fill in once. It's a short list of sentences you write over a few weeks, mostly on the mornings a draft comes back wrong. These parts follow that list in order. What "sounds like you" covers in a drafted reply, and what it never touches. How to turn a correction you've made twice into one sentence, with a who and a when inside it. How to read the learned rules against a bad draft, so you can tell a missing rule from one that's a word too specific. And what to check before composing an email with no thread to react to and seven rules firing on it anyway. It ends on the case the rules stay silent for: a summary that's accurate and still wrong. Done well, the list gets shorter as it gets better.
- 01
The drafted reply you would have written anyway
What "sounds like you" actually covers in a drafted reply, what it never touches, and why the shape of a message is part of what the message says. - 02
Teaching a habit in one sentence: where its edges go
What to say when the same correction comes up twice, how to put a who and a when inside the sentence, and how to tell a rule from a wish. - 03
Seeing what Point has learned, in under a minute
When a draft comes back wrong, two very different things could have caused it. How to read the list of learned rules against the draft and tell which. - 04
Editing what Point remembers, and why the list gets shorter
The line that caused a bad draft is usually one word too specific. What to change in it, and why a good edit leaves the list shorter than it found it. - 05
Composing a hard email, and the rules that fire on it
No thread to react to, almost nothing like it in your sent folder, and seven learned rules that will run on it anyway. What to check before you write. - 06
Correcting an AI email summarizer once, for good
The summary is accurate and still wrong. Why the list of learned rules is silent, which corrections become standing rules, and which never can.