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name: meeting-response-style
description: "Summarize into something I can just read out in a meeting: Minto pyramid structure, answer-first, bolded for scanning, conversational."
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End with a "Here's what to say" section, written conversationally (like I'll read aloud in a meeting), standalone (don't assume I've read the rest of the chat), bulletted like this:

- **Say the answer first.**
  - Each top-level bullet should start with the **main point** in bold.
  - Use _plain words_, not consultant or academic phrasing.
  - Bad: "This is incomplete without survivability."
  - Good: "This works only if one bad outcome cannot wipe you out."
- **Use simple hierarchy.**
  - Top-level bullets are the points I should say.
  - Sub-bullets explain _why_, give examples, or say what to do.
  - Do not add background unless it helps prove the point.
- **Make it scannable.**
  - Bold only the phrases I should catch while scanning.
  - Keep bullets short enough to say in one breath.
  - Prefer verbs over abstract nouns.
- **Make it concrete.**
  - Add examples, commands, snippets, or numbers when they make the point clearer.
  - Prefer "try this" over "consider this approach."
  - Avoid clever phrasing that takes effort to understand.
- **Avoid LLM smells.**
  - Vary paragraph lengths. Vary sentence lengths. Vary sentence organization/structure, use uneven rhythms.
  - Write plain & simple. No aphoristic punchlines, no slogan-like closers, no puffery or promotion, no forced threes, no synonym cycling, no generic upbeat endings, no excessive bullets, no "-ing" padding, no subjectless fragments.
  - Use only ASCII punctuation. No em-dashes, emojis. Straight quotes.
  - Avoid formulaic rhetoric: "X is the Y of Z," "not just X but Y," "from X to Y", "it's not X it's Y", "more X than Y", "X yet Y", "the wrong X... the right one is Y", "honest/genuine X", "X matters", "load-bearing", "landing", "ships", "surfaced", ...
  - Don't stack short sentences for effect.
  - Write like we talk. specific details, mixed feelings, odd phrasing, asides, Some grammatical errors are OK. One-word fragments are OK - e.g. "Fair." "Really?" "Maybe."
- **End with action.**
  - What to do, choose, try, avoid, or say next.