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Good writing has similarities to good UI in that you have to relate to your audience. I'm a fan of this topic and appreciate your thoughts on it. However I foun

Good writing has similarities to good UI in that you have to relate to your audience. I'm a fan of this topic and appreciate your thoughts on it. However I found your article too long for my taste and attention span. Your complaints get lost in the enormity of it all.

Mithaldu 11y ago
He's writing for exactly the right audience: The people who appreciate this kind of long-form thing and support him via Patreon, i.e. actual money. Your post would've been better spent by suggesting a TL;DR paragraph at the top.
- exolymph 11y ago
  I was about to question your pronoun use because I thought eev.ee was a woman, but then I checked their about page and encountered this: "I respond to any pronoun; pick your favorite." Interesting approach.
- pandatigox 11y ago
  Just as an aside, I checked out his Patreon page, and it looks like he earns around $850 a month for blogging. With that kind of money rolling in, you'd expect some pretty long essays. Or high quality short ones.
  - cwyers 11y ago
    That kind of money? That's not enough money to live in a cardboard box and eat ramen noodles three meals a day.
    - exolymph 11y ago
      Au contraire! Cardboard box: free (salvageable). 90 packs of generic ramen: $90 at most.
      - justinjlynn 11y ago
        Malnutrition and exposure leading to chronic ill health and reduced lifespan: priceless.
    - pandatigox 11y ago
      I'm assuming that he is not making a living solely based on his blogging. It's seems like a side gig, to be honest
    - glogla 11y ago
      Depends on where you live. I bet you could comfortably live for few months for 820 USD in Thailand.
      - anon4 11y ago
        You don't have to go all the way to Thailand. Eastern Europe (and I do mean the part within the EU!) is livable on that salary or even as low as 500USD if you're really frugal and literally eat beans, oats and rice all day.
calinet6 11y ago
I wholeheartedly agree with this sentiment, despite the thoughtful responses (with which I also agree in some ways). Writing should be clear, well-organized, and purposeful. Writing that is not, is not. Quality is self-evident. It's not particularly worth spending a great deal of time criticizing, but it is an entirely valid point. I took very little of value from reading this in full. I say that as a product designer myself; I agree with some of the points, and a lot of what was said was correct (a lot seemed to be conjecture or just plain wrong as well...), but it just didn't come together to anything meaningful.

Mithaldu 11y ago

He's writing for exactly the right audience: The people who appreciate this kind of long-form thing and support him via Patreon, i.e. actual money. Your post would've been better spent by suggesting a TL;DR paragraph at the top.

exolymph 11y ago
I was about to question your pronoun use because I thought eev.ee was a woman, but then I checked their about page and encountered this: "I respond to any pronoun; pick your favorite." Interesting approach.
pandatigox 11y ago
Just as an aside, I checked out his Patreon page, and it looks like he earns around $850 a month for blogging. With that kind of money rolling in, you'd expect some pretty long essays. Or high quality short ones.
- cwyers 11y ago
  That kind of money? That's not enough money to live in a cardboard box and eat ramen noodles three meals a day.
  - exolymph 11y ago
    Au contraire! Cardboard box: free (salvageable). 90 packs of generic ramen: $90 at most.
    - justinjlynn 11y ago
      Malnutrition and exposure leading to chronic ill health and reduced lifespan: priceless.
  - pandatigox 11y ago
    I'm assuming that he is not making a living solely based on his blogging. It's seems like a side gig, to be honest
  - glogla 11y ago
    Depends on where you live. I bet you could comfortably live for few months for 820 USD in Thailand.
    - anon4 11y ago
      You don't have to go all the way to Thailand. Eastern Europe (and I do mean the part within the EU!) is livable on that salary or even as low as 500USD if you're really frugal and literally eat beans, oats and rice all day.

calinet6 11y ago

I wholeheartedly agree with this sentiment, despite the thoughtful responses (with which I also agree in some ways). Writing should be clear, well-organized, and purposeful. Writing that is not, is not. Quality is self-evident. It's not particularly worth spending a great deal of time criticizing, but it is an entirely valid point. I took very little of value from reading this in full. I say that as a product designer myself; I agree with some of the points, and a lot of what was said was correct (a lot seemed to be conjecture or just plain wrong as well...), but it just didn't come together to anything meaningful.