You can increase the chances of something being read by keeping it short. There’s about no chance that random, moderately interested people are going to read the complete sequences. So there is a need for distillation into concise but complete arguments. Still, after all this time.
Exactly. What I was thinking of but not expressing clearly is that the strategy this post focused on, writing more to be clearer, is not a good strategy for many purposes.
You can increase the chances of something being read by keeping it short. There’s about no chance that random, moderately interested people are going to read the complete sequences. So there is a need for distillation into concise but complete arguments. Still, after all this time.
Exactly. What I was thinking of but not expressing clearly is that the strategy this post focused on, writing more to be clearer, is not a good strategy for many purposes.