The length of an email should increase as the news you are delivering worsens.
When you're telling people something they don't want to hear, it softens the blow to use lots of words. And yet good essayists use no more words than necessary. Which is why, when people read a (good) essay they disagree with, they disagree so violently.
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I used to look forward to your essays. Now you don't seem to write them anymore. Is it because you're always on Twitter now, struggling valiantly to shoehorn a coherent thought into 280 characters?
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To paraphrase Charlie Munger ‘The first rule of fishing, go to where the fish are!’.
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Possibly, it's the reason human languages have evolved to be ~50% more inefficient than necessary.
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The best thing I’ve read on the value of thrift and precision with words:https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/616371 …
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