I'm old too but you should think harder about this. You can learn from bitter experience, and you also can learn from the detailed accounts written by others.

I'm old too but you should think harder about this. You can learn from bitter experience, and you also can learn from the detailed accounts written by others. Don't begrudge the youngins the chance to learn from other people's experience (and mistakes). It's a ton of work to manage these kind of leadership changes, so the incremental cost of also writing about it for an hour or two isn't much. So no, to answer your question, it wouldn't have ruined anything to write something short and sweet like your example. And yeah, if he had taken more time he could have made the post shorter. Grumpy Friday!