Perhaps I should clarify then that I don’t actually think my writing was bad. I don’t think it was perfect, but I don’t think the post would have been significantly improved by me having a paragraph or two about how influence (and thus point-of-no-return) is a property of the map, not the territory. I think most readers, like me, knew that already. At any rate it seems not super relevant to the point I was trying to make.
Perhaps I should clarify then that I don’t actually think my writing was bad. I don’t think it was perfect, but I don’t think the post would have been significantly improved by me having a paragraph or two about how influence (and thus point-of-no-return) is a property of the map, not the territory. I think most readers, like me, knew that already. At any rate it seems not super relevant to the point I was trying to make.