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This. I remember the day when I casually asked my cofounder, an amazing storyteller, how his day was. He answered: „Awesome. I had 8 slides this morning. Now I
by endymi0n 5y ago
This. I remember the day when I casually asked my cofounder, an amazing storyteller, how his day was.
He answered: „Awesome. I had 8 slides this morning. Now I have three.“
That day, something fundamentally clicked in me.
I learned that day that condensing and sharpening information towards a punchline is real, hard and meaningful work.
Or, as Mark Twain once said, “I didn’t have time to write you a short letter, so I wrote you a long one.”
- pklausler 5y agoIt was Blaise Pascal in his Lettres Provinciales.
- earleybird 5y agoFor an in depth review of the phrase: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/04/28/shorter-letter/ https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/04/28/shorter-letter/ I am partial to Woodrow Wilsons' variation on the theme; something resonates when I'm asked to for a development/programming estimate.