Attention is so rarely the bind constraint. The world has fractal detail everywhere and nearly infinite blandishments. Relatively few professionals are effective because of specializing in high-volume low-consideration decisionmaking.
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Much professional work is in successful execution. For the variant which is more about discernment than execution, in most cases one isn't rewarded for alacrity or for repeatedly predicting the future. One is rewarded for the magnitude of non-consensus rightness one finds.
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A lot of professional writing which is not effectively execution in itself is about marshalling the data and arguments which will convince other people to join you in non-consensus rightness. Those data / arguments' natural length is the length required to achieve action.
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This is true both as a consumer and as a producer of arguments: Don't favor the form factor over the correctness. That is an *expensive* preference to have over the long run.
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I am not opposed to e.g. executive summaries or writing well. I'm opposed to teaching people that most professional output is purposeless makework. That is *also* a very expensive preference to have over the long run.
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I’m still not watching any talking head twitter videos that take two minutes to say what can be read in 15 seconds.
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I have much, more bandwidth available when reading than when listening or watching. In fact the biggest problem is to extract signal from the firehose of information available when reading. Talking? Do the same with info coming at two words per second. Grossly inefficient.
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tl;dr man with opinion
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Alternative interpretations: - forcing function to prevent burying the lede - improves overall readability by framing the rest of the arguments around the core context - helps skimmers decide whether or not to engage - improves sharability, because summarization is hard work
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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I read tl:dr as the equivalent of an abstract.
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When done *well*? Yes Typically? More like click-bait (or anti-click-bait) headlining
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