Self-quote: “I’ve been neglecting [writer X]...because he seems to represent a totalizing thought system that sucks people past an event horizon beyond which they are unable to communicate about certain things except in his terms. I resist learning closed intellectual languages.”
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I consciously try to do the opposite kind of writing... more pass-through airport than obscure black hole. Friendly to shallow glosses, and 90% stuff being 90% stand-alone. Read x fraction ==> expect sqrt(x) fraction of total value on offer.
Don’t always succeed I suppose.
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This, plus Feynmans quote ( if you can't say something simply then you don't understand it) are two of N basics tenants of great nonfiction writing

