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You may enjoy “Dabblers and Blowhards” from IdleWords, if you’re not already familiar with it. https://idlewords.com/2005/04/dabblers_and_blowhards.htm https://idlewords.com/2005/04/dabblers_and_blowhards.htm Reading that helped me come to terms with how most of the time when I read PG essays I was a lot less impressed than everyone else seemed to be, and often (any time the topic wasn’t narrowly tech or maaaybe business) his writing struck me as actually bad—not well-reasoned, not convincing, and giving an impression of his being poorly-informed. When I experience an author everyone else is praising that way, I wonder if I’m the moron. But, sometimes, maybe I’m not…