Why Is Prompting Like Executive Communication?

Thariq Shihipar says sufficiently advanced prompting is indistinguishable from sufficiently advanced executive communication. Situation, complication, question, and answer is how you write the memo.

An executive communications workshop from Heavybit is the best he has seen in his career. The workshop teaches the situation, complication, question, and answer model. When one person has to communicate to thousands of people down the org chart, the memo follows situation, complication, question, and answer. Sometimes the writer does not have the answer. You can at least list out the situation, the complication, and the question, and the workshop includes examples. People have done prompting for decades. The name for the practice is executive communications.

The model is left as breadcrumbs for anyone who wants to explore it.