>> I've been working on reducing the habit of repetition. I think it comes from (feeling like) people not listening to you. I used to belive this, but after so

>> I've been working on reducing the habit of repetition. I think it comes from (feeling like) people not listening to you. I used to belive this, but after some horizon-broadening reading/listening that went far outside of my usual technical inclination, I noticed that there are some that are deeply convinced that repetition is the key to effective communication with normal people (by which I mean most non-technically inclined ones). Just listen to managerial podcasts (for example www.manager-tools.com) or read any book on marketing or NPL programming. Most of it is probably bullshit but there is one theme that persists through all of this (repeats, if You will :)). I started to wonder if my drive to not repeat myself is somehow deeply connected to my technical life (I spent most of my life programming, DRY-ing my code, and reading complex technical books that cannot afford repetition because the material is too dense). And maybe this is not how the real world works - maybe the other 95% of it needs everything repeated till their ears and eyas bleeds - otherwise they will just ride through it like they ride through their facebook wall.