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Yes, he should write short and succinct articles like Paul Graham or Joel Spolsky :) With written or spoken communication (as opposed to visual), you have to s
by pchristensen 19y ago
Yes, he should write short and succinct articles like Paul Graham or Joel Spolsky :)
With written or spoken communication (as opposed to visual), you have to say things a lot of times, in a lot of ways, to get people to listen. Which is more memorable - this or a Valleywag post?
- davidw 19y agoMost of pg's articles feel like they have less fluff to me. They may be long, but most of the writing feels like it has a point. A bit less so with Steve Yegge, or perhaps it's more hit and miss...
- Goladus 19y agoThere's a lot of humor in pg's essays but overall Yegge is more consistently funny and often downright hilarious. He'll often have a valid point, but equally important is the goal of presenting that point in an entertaining way. I think of it less as fluff and more of a tasty cream filling. Yegge has an exceptional sense of comic timing in writing, and sometimes it takes a bit of buildup. Imagine a kingdom of nouns and verbs, where nouns have lots of rights and verbs are oppressed. Imagine replacing all the verbs with just one verb, 'execute!' Get it? Verb/execute/oppression?? I guess not, not when I try to cram all the ideas into 2 sentences. Sure it takes Yegge a page or so to get there, but the payoff is a hearty laugh.