Your summaries are exactly what he doesn't want to write: https://danluu.com/writing-non-advice/ https://danluu.com/writing-non-advice/ - "confident, unqualifi

Your summaries are exactly what he doesn't want to write: https://danluu.com/writing-non-advice/ https://danluu.com/writing-non-advice/ - "confident, unqualified, statements, works (gets people readers). People like confidence. I view optimizing for other goals to be more important than optimizing for popularity. On length, I frequently cover topics that can't be covered in brief easily, or perhaps at all. One example of this is... other versions of the post that could ... probably be written in 1000 words. That post, written well, would have a wider audience, be more popular, but that's not what I want to write." "I often have long, meandering, sentences, not for any particular literary purpose, but just because it reflects how I think. .. I try to have a structured argument and, when possible, evidence, with caveats for cases where the evidence isn't applicable. Although not presenting evidence makes something read cleanly, that's not my choice because I don't like that the reader basically has to take or leave it with respect to bare assertions, such as "what nerds like is the kind of town where people walk around smiling" and would prefer if readers know why I think something so they can agree or disagree based on the underlying reasons." "I have an analogous opinion on style because I frequently want to discuss things in a level of detail and with a level of precision that precludes writing cleanly in the classic style. A specific, small, example is..." "A more general thing is that Paul [Graham] writes about a lot of "big ideas" at a high level. That's something that's amenable to writing in a clean, simple style; what Paul calls an elegant style. But I'm not interested in writing about big ideas that are disconnected from low-level details and it's difficult to effectively discuss low-level details without writing in a style Paul would call inelegant."