Write Simply: http://paulgraham.com/simply.html
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Replying to @paulg
It would be fun if you wrote a second version of the same essay using non-simple writing to show how much worse it is.
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Replying to @waitbutwhy
Interesting idea, but I just tried to think of how I'd rewrite the first couple sentences, and it was freakishly hard. As hard as it is not think of a polar bear when someone tells you not to think of a polar bear.
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Replying to @ArthurB @waitbutwhy
Excellent use of irrelevant detail.
2:23 AM - 12 Mar 2021
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