I expect a sales pitch for a course at the end. /rant
Perhaps it's just a personal preference, but I prefer reading fully-formed paragraphs instead of one sentence per line. I really wish people would stop writing their blog like it's a marketing copy for get-rich-quick schemes.
I second comment this after reading some of the blog posts.
Studying philosophy in university and having my essays critiqued was a very valuable experience. In three years my writing got perhaps 10-20% better, in part due to understanding that prose and argumentation is a reflection of the thought behind it.
If you write your blogs like this.
It just…
Looks like you are having snippets of ideas.
It isn’t very profound.
It is actually just an annoying stylistic dead-end.
Also reading, reading, reading things that aren’t technical articles and PowerPoint presentations really helps. To develop good style one has to know good stylists, and what one has taste for imitating.
I could go on. But I’ll try not to.
Except to say, why should anyone bother reading your blog? Why don’t you write a whole book instead? That can be a useful way to “write yourself out” to burn through all your bad and needless ideas while finding your own voice. Also accepting and understanding that minds vastly greater than those found in STEM sometimes choose to apply themselves to crafting fiction and prose.
But ultimately you need to have things you need to say.
Been thinking this. I try to complete whatever random thought I have in a day but that doesn't leave me with much time to really ponder or be profound.
Partly because I've found my attention span has really deteriorated over the last few years and I struggle to sit, read and think. I'm gradually spending more time thinking but I could do more.
I don’t think this makes sense as the reason. Surely the problem is the stylistic decision to have many one-sentence paragraphs rather than the mechanism of separating paragraphs?
Thanks for the feedback. I don't know why I settled on that. It could be because of LinkedIn and in general, what I read online: other substacks, medium posts etc.
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Why do people write like this?
This is no way to write.
Every time I read something.
Written like this.
I expect a sales pitch for a course at the end. /rant
Perhaps it's just a personal preference, but I prefer reading fully-formed paragraphs instead of one sentence per line. I really wish people would stop writing their blog like it's a marketing copy for get-rich-quick schemes.
I second comment this after reading some of the blog posts.
Studying philosophy in university and having my essays critiqued was a very valuable experience. In three years my writing got perhaps 10-20% better, in part due to understanding that prose and argumentation is a reflection of the thought behind it.
If you write your blogs like this.
It just…
Looks like you are having snippets of ideas.
It isn’t very profound.
It is actually just an annoying stylistic dead-end.
Also reading, reading, reading things that aren’t technical articles and PowerPoint presentations really helps. To develop good style one has to know good stylists, and what one has taste for imitating.
I could go on. But I’ll try not to.
Except to say, why should anyone bother reading your blog? Why don’t you write a whole book instead? That can be a useful way to “write yourself out” to burn through all your bad and needless ideas while finding your own voice. Also accepting and understanding that minds vastly greater than those found in STEM sometimes choose to apply themselves to crafting fiction and prose.
But ultimately you need to have things you need to say.
Been thinking this. I try to complete whatever random thought I have in a day but that doesn't leave me with much time to really ponder or be profound.
Partly because I've found my attention span has really deteriorated over the last few years and I struggle to sit, read and think. I'm gradually spending more time thinking but I could do more.
It's become popular because Reddit requires double new lines to create a new paragraph.
Reddit is such a popular website that this habit has proliferated across the textual web.
It has the side effect of making your point take up more screen space vertically.
This can help you maximize the number of upvotes you get on your posts.
The narwhal bacons at midnight.
I don’t think this makes sense as the reason. Surely the problem is the stylistic decision to have many one-sentence paragraphs rather than the mechanism of separating paragraphs?
My theory is people watch more video than they read prose. Then they end up "thinking in video", even as they write for readers.
So we get little textual storyboards for unproduced video content. Easy for them to write, annoying for most to read, but "good enough".
Thanks for the feedback. I don't know why I settled on that. It could be because of LinkedIn and in general, what I read online: other substacks, medium posts etc.
This reads like an average LinkedIn post
gen z kids type like this aha