I’m kinda circling a phenomenological writing style. It’s hard.
- Limit adjectives and adverbs to essential ones
- No clickbaiting
- No more than 1-2 abstract concepts/essay
- No appeals to authority
- No ornamental quotes
- Simpler vocabulary where possible
- No shibboleths
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When I hit this tone effectively, the effect is phenomenological. It reads like unadorned witnessing with minimal theoretical filters, and highly grounded
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No more than 1-2 models per essay is a thing I had to learn the hard way.
IMO, essays aren't good for a lot of the writing people want to do these days. Where you have like, 100 models that fit together in a gestalt and you want to transmit the gestalt.
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Doubling down. I do think of good headlines for example and am now deliberately using banal headlines and even numbered codes.
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