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Ironically, this does not respect the reader's time. Takes 12 clicks to read through all the points, and I still don't know what the colors mean, why the nodes
by phailhaus 4y ago
Ironically, this does not respect the reader's time. Takes 12 clicks to read through all the points, and I still don't know what the colors mean, why the nodes are connected the way they are, or what it's trying to convey. The default layout also makes the graph look more complex than it really is; there's no reason for edges to overlap.
- _bramses 4y agoI think graphs are fun, so I made a graph ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- egypturnash 4y agoI was coming here to post similar sentiments. :)
- jkingsbery 4y ago* "Respect the time of your readers, and respect your message!" * "The Art of Writing Less and Saying Basically The Same Thing [sic - that's not even a complete sentence]" * "Don't say anything more than you need to / Revision 1: Don't say more than needed / Revision 2: Say only what's needed" * "If I Had More Time, I Would Have Written a Shorter Letter" * "Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all sentences short or avoid all detail and treat subjects only in outline, but that every word tell." * "When revising, pretend to be your own worst enemy. Is there anything that can be misunderstood? If so, change it so that it can’t!" I'm confused about whether the author read this advice and chose to ignore it by repeating it 6 (or, 5 times, and alluded to it with a sentence fragment), or whether this is some self-aware-meta-I-know-the-rules-but-I'm-ignoring them, or what's going on here.
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