@vgr Saint-Exupery: Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
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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@eli_schiff@pryom reduction is absurd. Compression is not.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@eli_schiff@pryom in a sense, compression is not an arbitrary subjective value. It gets at Occam's razor: "more true" (or "less wrong")Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@eli_schiff ah, you're talking writing to communicate. Writing to think is always for yourself first. It's product-driven versus customer.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@eli_schiff Sounds like the kind of trolling I'd like to do when I can afford to :)Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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