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I think your problem is in this statement > if you want to read amazing technical writing I haven't been reading PG's recent writing (only so much time in the
by bachmeier 7y ago
I think your problem is in this statement
> if you want to read amazing technical writing
I haven't been reading PG's recent writing (only so much time in the day) but the quote you gave is a good example of how to teach a concept. It's dead simple, even obvious, when you read it. The key is that you know exactly what his point was when he wrote that. The quote you provided is not technical writing in the sense of On Lisp.
If you look at the popular blog posts that make the front page of HN, many of them are at this same level - and that's okay, because it's apparently what many people want to read these days.
- alexpetralia 7y agoAlex Danco offers an interesting criticism of Silicon Valley's desire to satisfy "what many people want" without any sense of responsibility or paternalism: https://danco.substack.com/p/progress-postmodernism-and-the-tech https://danco.substack.com/p/progress-postmodernism-and-the-... (I am not saying the critique of postmodernism is right or wrong, but simply that it is insightful and relevant.)