[Sca-cooks] Overdocumentation and how I prefer to be in persona

[R J]

 Someone mentioned within the last year on one board
or another the idea of "demo manners" as I think of
it.
 
When I teach, I show "what we do" and "what we think
they did".
 
 My background includes a lot of time teaching Junior
High shop, before the class was forcibly removed by
the state, and have come across a few truisms.

 If there can be confusion or misunderstanding, there
will be. Speak as plainly as possible.

 If you expect a certain thing to be done, or have a
need, spell it out, or expect something different.

 If you ask someone else to do a task, particularly
one which includes some artistic license ( such as
cooking ) expect it to turn out differently than you
intended. 

After all, the person who actually does the work has
their own filters and expectations. This variation is
not wrong, it is merely other than expected. Perhaps
there is a language barrier, or a word with double
meanings someone takes the other way.
 
Enjoy it as another variant, and dont worry that it
was not precisely what you hoped for.

 When I go to an event, I am not only going to use
what I have made, but to learn more about it, ask
questions from those who know a lot more than I, hire
people to do the things I cannot, and so on.
 
 I will take every chance to show "this is how we do
it" as I use a period tool to do a period task, but I
also want to make clear "this also works" as I point
to the modern, more available equivalent.

 Role play makes me uncomfortable, so AEsa is me, just
with a different background and perspective. 
 

 RJ/AEsa

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Thanks, 
    RJ

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