I think a general, informal rule of thumb should be that you put in as much effort to write a thing as you expect from someone to read the thing. If you think I

I think a general, informal rule of thumb should be that you put in as much effort to write a thing as you expect from someone to read the thing. If you think I’m going to spend an hour figuring out what happened to you, you’d better have spent at least an hour actually trying to figure it out yourself.