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The new professional standards – worth the one side of paper they’re written on?

“Peccavi” was the one word telegram that Sir Charles Napier (apocryphally) sent to announce his conquest of Sindh province (it’s Latin for “I have sinned”). Blaise Pascal, French mathematician and philosopher famously ended a letter with the apology “I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time”. Both are good examples of how less can definitely be more in communicating something important.