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title: "Write more, but less"
date: 2021-09-15
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I found a [post][1] by Antoine Lehurt, which then led me to a similar [post][2]
by Mike Crittenden. The thesis of both posts can be summed up as "write more,
but less".

That is: write more thing, but have each thing be shorter. This has a few key
benefits.

First, it lowers the barrier for writing something. Instead of worrying about
whether you can write "enough" about whatever it is you want to write about,
just write, and don't worry if it turns out short.

Second, it makes reading things easier. People are busy, and generally don't
have a lot of time to spend on any one thing. The longer your thing is, the more
likely a potential reader will just skip it.

Third, keeping something short forces you, the writer, to distill what you want
to say to its essence. See Blaise Pascal's/Mark Twain's "Sorry for not writing a
shorter letter; I didn't have time, so I wrote a longer one instead".

There are more benefits, but gotta keep the post short, right?

I'd also offer as a closing though that sometimes, a longer-form "deep dive" is
the right move. I think it largely depends on what the audience of your work is.

[1]: https://blog.kewah.com/2021/write-more-but-shorter/
[2]: https://critter.blog/2020/10/02/write-5x-more-but-write-5x-less/

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