This is largely where I'm ending up, but I started at the other end.

There is value in prose that carries your literal voice when the audience is _people who know you_. There is negative value in writing prose that requires the audience to _read it in your voice_ in order for it to make sense, avoid offense, or convey intent.

My prose changed first: it became plain spoken, as devoid of contextual subtlety as I could make it. My career benefitted. My spoken interactions followed.

The only thing that bothers me about it is the nagging sense that I've become so fucking boring.

I also started at the other end, in the sense that from an early age and for the rest of my life I have spent a lot more time chatting over text than with spoken word.

Perhaps there is beauty in 'negative value'. Art may have 'negative value' by that definition.