I remember when I was in school, I’d sometimes write a joke paper for an assignment I really hated, before scrapping it and writing something real. It was cathartic to write a page or two on why the material was dumb as nails, and sometimes I’d even get some usable material from the process.

I feel the same way writing emails to vendors. Next time, I think I’ll take my initial draft and send it through an LLM to make it more “professional”.