Hell Is a World in Which Everybody Writes Like Axios (2022) (newrepublic.com) 6 points by Tomte 5mo ago ↗ HN
[–] ggm 5mo ago ↗ Written as if readers digest didn't have a willing audience.Not that it excuses all, but you can understand why a publisher is attracted to a house style of.. brevity.
[–] sensitiveCal 5mo ago ↗ “Smart brevity” works well for updates, but I’m not sure it translates to thinking.When everything is compressed into bullet points, you often lose the intermediate reasoning which is where most of the actual insight lives.At some point it stops being a writing style and starts shaping how ideas themselves are formed.
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[ 3.2 ms ] story [ 18.5 ms ] threadNot that it excuses all, but you can understand why a publisher is attracted to a house style of.. brevity.
When everything is compressed into bullet points, you often lose the intermediate reasoning which is where most of the actual insight lives.
At some point it stops being a writing style and starts shaping how ideas themselves are formed.