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> You can always tell when someone squeezes a 1000 page book into 200 pages. It feels short and insightful. I disagree with this argument. You can most certain
by KittenInABox 5y ago
> You can always tell when someone squeezes a 1000 page book into 200 pages. It feels short and insightful.
I disagree with this argument. You can most certainly tell when someone is trying to squeeze too much into a too small of a space. The sentences are dense and the information density prohibits actually gleaning anything.
- Swizec 5y agoYou are right there are limits where too much summarizing drops important details. Generally though I prefer writing where the author had to aggressively kill the unimportant because they ran out of space to the writing that fluffs up to fill more space than it needs.