10 communication rules nobody teaches you at college

I once found out about a decision in a very ugly way. I exported a spreadsheet to CSV, imported it into a project, and handed it to my AI agent to build me a slide out of the data. The slide came back wrong. Not broken, just wrong: the numbers on it did not match the plan our whole group had agreed on weeks earlier. My first thought was that I had messed up the import. My second thought was that…