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1. Write first draft with all the complexity and depth the topic demands. 2. Now try to summarize into one page and evolve a framework that can capture the essence. 3. Rewrite the entire thing with the framework at the center. Very few have the gift of starting at 2.
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conversational tone; treating reader as generally smart if not up-to-date on the particular topic; not speaking as if you have the truth but a perspective that you find interesting, saying why you find it so; being slightly inebriated or pretending your listener is
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