@preinfarction i think i was thinking of blog posts as a central example
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@preinfarction where people basically already know what they're going to say in advance1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@preinfarction but then they add a lot of words full of vivid examples of the thing, or elaborations on the ideas behind it, or whatever1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@preinfarction and if they explicitly state the thing at all, it's deeply buried and you have to waste ten minutes reading first1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@preinfarction there's also sometimes writings that make a lot of different loose points, and there the summary really is an afterthought1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@preinfarction but then again, maybe those writings should be split or something1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@preinfarction i don't know. i'm probably sounding more confident than is warranted because i'm frustrated1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@preinfarction my sense is that people don't write things because they have to write long things because long things are high status1 reply 1 retweet 2 likes -
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@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 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
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@VesselOfSpirit And for a few blogs, I expect their conclusions to be wrong, but find their justifications insightful2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
@VesselOfSpirit Something something you can rework wrong arguments but you have to abandon wrong conclusions
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