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This essay is in radical need of a TL;DR. If something is this important, you owe it to the subject matter not to bury the lede under a mountain of history and
by peteforde 8y ago
This essay is in radical need of a TL;DR. If something is this important, you owe it to the subject matter not to bury the lede under a mountain of history and flowery exposition.
Ask yourself: who is this for? People who are not already deeply passionate will stop reading unless they are engaged in a minute of reading. Note that a minute is being extremely generous; on a commercial consumer site, it's apparently an average of 7 seconds before someone will click away.
I recommend that you check out this video and reconsider how you might reframe your message as a call to action that speaks to a better future we can create together.
https://youtu.be/qp0HIF3SfI4?t=121 https://youtu.be/qp0HIF3SfI4?t=121
I even jumped you to the good part.
- sprayk 8y agoI definitely scrolled around, looking for some kind of summary. I wantee to figure out if I was gonna be wasting my time reading another recap of what I lived through or if there was gonna be a proposal for some way to get back to decentralization that I could evaluate and keep in mind when designing my own apps. Couldn't figure it out from scrolling so I bailed.