You know a piece of writing has turned the corner when rewrites start to lower the word count instead of increase it.
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in a sense, compression is not an arbitrary subjective value. It gets at Occam's razor: "more true" (or "less wrong")
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ah, you're talking writing to communicate. Writing to think is always for yourself first. It's product-driven versus customer.
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Sounds like the kind of trolling I'd like to do when I can afford to :)

