@preinfarction i think i was thinking of blog posts as a central example
@preinfarction well... it's more complicated than i was suggesting, for sure
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@preinfarction where people basically already know what they're going to say in advance -
@preinfarction but then they add a lot of words full of vivid examples of the thing, or elaborations on the ideas behind it, or whatever -
@preinfarction and if they explicitly state the thing at all, it's deeply buried and you have to waste ten minutes reading first -
@preinfarction there's also sometimes writings that make a lot of different loose points, and there the summary really is an afterthought -
@preinfarction but then again, maybe those writings should be split or something -
@preinfarction i don't know. i'm probably sounding more confident than is warranted because i'm frustrated -
@preinfarction my sense is that people don't write things because they have to write long things because long things are high status -
@preinfarction there must have been hundreds of times when i've read a blog post and halfway through i went "you could have just SAID THAT" - 2 more replies
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