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Is there some weird chic thing where you intentionally don’t use capital letters? What is up with that behaviour?

Is it some cute attempt at saying “an AI didn’t write this”?

> Is there some weird chic thing where you intentionally don’t use capital letters? What is up with that ridiculous behaviour?

I was wondering the same thing. Always, on purpose, avoiding starting sentences with capital letters. Both this guy and Sam Altman. What ... why ... ?

So you know that they are rule and norm breakers, no rule too tiny to be broken and skipped in the name of productivity/health/insert-hot-thing-of-the-day

That's it. Disruption as a way of life. True entrepreneur mindset. Yeahhhh.

I've seen this from a couple of VP/SVP level execs at companies I've worked. My pet theory is it's some kind of weird "My time is too important to even use the shift key" signal. They probably add up the cumulative amount of time they would spend using the shift key and multiply by their compensation and realize they could buy another car if they just optimized that useless key out of their lives.

at this point, it's work to keep autocorrect from fixing this.

Plenty of people don't use autocorrect.

Sure — my point is only that by and large it’s on by default, and you have to actively turn it off (or de-correct manually).

personally, it comes from spending too much time on IRC back in the day and now thinking it's normal not to capitalize ;-) a bit of a stylistic choice

but over time I've become accustomed to capitalizing a bit more often and it's become sort of random. I actually have auto-capitalization turned off on my phone

Oh that’s an interesting source I haven’t considered. It is rather stylistic.

You can thank this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._E._Cummings

Maybe auto-correction is off because you need to type too much acroynms and jargons and auto-correction is annoying?

Unlikely. They are separate settings both on iOS and Android.

a habit of a certain era of internet kids.

Some people just don't like to press shift. I moaned at one of my friends about this, years ago, and I got a 1-word reply that really stuck in my mind:

> thomas.

And there is indeed no law against not pressing shift.

Yea, I'm not a fan. I'm not grammar nazi but it makes reading a bit unpleasant.

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