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This article starts with several paragraphs of rambling about the author and his wife and whatnot. I don't know if there is an official name for this sort of me
by zwaps 8y ago
This article starts with several paragraphs of rambling about the author and his wife and whatnot. I don't know if there is an official name for this sort of medium.com writing style, but I have seen it criticized before.
Maybe medium.com authors are paid by words?
Anyway, I am sure it's a good article. Sadly, I am now conditioned to close the tab whenever the article starts with the author & friend or partner last Friday...
- dTal 8y agoYour loss. It's a great article, with a researcher's results woven in with the author's personal experience of it as a (fairly compelling) "worked example". What you describe as "rambling" is 2 sentences of introduction to the former, followed by 2 sentences of introduction to the latter. If your attention span can't handle 4 perfectly relevant introductory sentences, that's not the article's fault.