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I disagree -- and I'm troubled that people seem to assert that just because you can say something quickly, means you should be compelled to pare down your ideas
by verisimilitude 17y ago
I disagree -- and I'm troubled that people seem to assert that just because you can say something quickly, means you should be compelled to pare down your ideas into CliffsNotes. The readers lose out on the richness of the ideas being conveyed.
Sometimes novels should've been essays. Why must essays always become tweets?
- bh23ha 17y agoIt's not that essays should be tweets, it's that I and a lot of other people here prefer a particular style of writing. Think of "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!", a fact heavy almost detail free style. But most people prefer a longer story based style and I suspect most people on HN today are of that type.