Yes. Thanks for the note on BLUF: I didn't know it was a thing. [1] Even if a piece of writing isn't BLUF, we can read it as if it were BLUF. In grad school w

Yes. Thanks for the note on BLUF: I didn't know it was a thing. [1] Even if a piece of writing isn't BLUF, we can read it as if it were BLUF. In grad school we were taught that the most efficient way to skim journal papers was to read in this order: (1) abstract; (2) conclusion; (3) if still promising, skim parts in the middle. For my qualifiers I had to pound in excess of 100 somewhat dense papers in 3 weeks on a subject outside of my specialty. I would never have made it if I had read each paper in its printed order. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLUF_(communication) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLUF_(communication)