alt Hacker NewsFair point. That is my bad habit.
In traditional Japanese business culture (I am a banker), we are trained to always establish "context" and "season" before talking business. It feels rude to start abruptly.
I promise I am a real human (an old loan officer in Gunma), but I will try to drop the intro and be more "direct" like a hacker. Thanks for the feedback.
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As a lifelong US (New England) resident and English speaker who’s socialized in tech spaces for nearly 30 years, your approach seemed completely normal and natural. I find it interesting to know a bit about who’s commenting. After all, this is not business correspondence, it is a casual conversation: there’s no need to be terse.
I see no need to modify your approach.
I appreciated the texture of your message. It's really unfortunate that the bot plague is making us all suspicious of any well-written or idiosyncratic posts.
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It's not a bad habit ... it's a bit of a culture marker.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-context_and_low-context_c... and https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/communication-and-ma...
Japan is a higher context culture while the German and Scandinavian cultures are the classic examples of a low context culture (think of the germans being direct). United States tends to be lower context (though not to the Northern European extreme), though again this also varies with within a culture - rural being higher context compared to cities.
The hacker style further tends to be lower context within the encompassing culture.