How to re-edit a ribbonfarm style essay for normies 1. Get rid of 80% of concepts that only do 20% of work 2. Unwind the 4 intertwined subplots and eliminate 3 3. Triple the number of examples 4. Invent a conclusion 5. Prune bunnytrails that don’t merge back into conclusion
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Why not do both? Perfectly reasonable for eg
@noUpside to write the more thinky version for Ribbonfarm and condensed version for Wired. -
I do
One just takes way more effort and is not worth it in 90% of the cases
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