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>Never use three words when one will do. Be concise. Tech bloggers: please read this and repeat it to yourself every day until it sticks.
by benihana 14y ago
>Never use three words when one will do. Be concise.
Tech bloggers: please read this and repeat it to yourself every day until it sticks.
- hammock 14y agoSome editorial comments: 1) "Please read this" is redundant because if they got that far in your post, they've already read it. 2) "Repeat it to yourself every day" is trite and can be made more interesting by substituting "day" with "hour" or something else. 3) You use "this" but refer to an abstract and ambiguous antecedent. 4) If they can remember to repeat it to themselves each morning, then it must have already stuck, so yours is a nonsensical sentence. Here's my stab at something more creative: Tech bloggers, make an effort to follow this advice each time you write, until it becomes effortless. Or something shorter: Tech bloggers, sharpie this quote onto your keyboard.
- alaskamiller 14y agoTech bloggers have quotas. Most tech bloggers also don't know how to write.
- seanmcdirmid 14y agoGood writing takes time and resources, unless you are really good. Writing a good (academic) paper that is concise and coherent takes me a few weeks along with eyeball help from colleagues to point out what I didn't smell myself. I usually don't have those resources to spend on a blog post or even a short hacker news post; its in a different league.
- mattacular 14y agoTech bloggers need way more help than the fundamentals provided in this article. In fact, they are hopeless and should all just stick to writing code.
- chris_mahan 14y agoUh, don't they blog precisely because they cannot code?
- MartinCron 14y agoI don't believe that anyone is "hopeless" as a writer. There are people who may never be great writers, but if someone's capable of writing code competently, there's no reason they can't be a good writer.
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- celer 14y agoDo you have any examples of excessive conciseness?
- drp 14y agoYes.