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Is there a name for this simple style of writing? It reminds me of the style of pop science books written in the late 19th and early 20th century. There's a ni
by mFixman 2y ago
Is there a name for this simple style of writing?
It reminds me of the style of pop science books written in the late 19th and early 20th century. There's a nice charm in it, like it's trying not to be pretentiously complex.
- _visgean 2y agohonestly it feels like a powerpoint presentation in an article.
- keyle 2y agoHighly entertaining, keeps you surprised as you never know what's happening next, and full of images without being memes. Loved it.
- mikepurvis 2y agoThis author wrote a number of pretty influential essays during the early pandemic advocating for mask use, social distancing, and other mitigations. He's a trained educator, so the effectiveness of communication is definitely no accident: https://fortune.com/2020/08/10/the-overnight-coronavirus-expert/ https://fortune.com/2020/08/10/the-overnight-coronavirus-exp...
- talldatethrow 2y agoMy gf is a trained educator too with two masters somehow related to education. She teaches 8th grade English but has also taught highschool. She can't write or communicate at any level beyond typical hairdresser. Considering it's very hard to fail out of most upper level education unless you simply don't do the work at all, we really should stop giving people so much credit for just getting degrees. It's what you do with it that matters and how you devote yourself on your own time that makes people great. And that's what the previous commenter was doing. Trying to give credit to some education system someone went through is taking away from the person that actually made something of themselves, almost always by themselves. Side note, I graduated with a MechE degree from UC Berkeley. Decent grades. I can honestly say I learned almost nothing. I just did a ton of work they wanted. If I made something of myself in the engineering field, I promise it wasn't because of UC Berkeley.
- mikepurvis 2y agoOkay, fair. Some people are naturally gifted at these things, and others acquire the skills through extensive work in a non-academic context. I've been told I'm a pretty effective communicator/storyteller, and I certainly never studied it formally.
- dotinvoke 2y agoI read it before on Twitter, it’s probably adapted to fit into the 280-character limit.
- joenot443 2y agoBingo. For all its flaws, Twitter threads can be a nice way of delivering a point. I think the character limit implicitly encourages a kind of brevity which you wouldn't get anywhere else. https://x.com/tomaspueyo/status/1807380049605091537 https://x.com/tomaspueyo/status/1807380049605091537
- hammock 2y agoThe author Tomas Pueyo grew up in a family of filmmakers. For his Stanford MBA he specialized in behavioral psychology, design, storytelling, and scriptwriting. I have to imagine that has some influence on his writing
- edouard-harris 2y agoIt's roughly in the style of a children's picture book. That's the same style the best startup pitch decks are written in.
- open_ 2y agoApart from a few other factors, the biggest one that stands out is not stringing you along in a click-baity way, instead just asking a question and giving a direct answer right after the question and in simple direct words. No dark patterns to make you spend a longer time on the webpage for ad metrics.
- nsbk 2y agoI thoroughly enjoyed reading the post. A breath of fresh air among all the click-bitey and false buildup so common in content these days. PLEASE DO TRAIN THE GPTs ON THIS GUY
- err4nt 2y agoI thought it would be dense, but it was lighthearted and didn't take itself too seriously, and both shared information and fun questions to ask. I enjoyed the speculation which had not even a shred of political or social agenda anywhere in sight. Just pure fun.
- risenshinetech 2y ago> Is there a name for this simple style of writing? 4th grade English
- dncornholio 2y agoI hate it. Seems to me it's full of clickbaits. "Find out what happens next", "What's going on?", "What's happening?", "So why is Chile so long, but not longer?". I can't stand it to be honest and stopped reading because of this.