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#638 - Kevin Kelly - 22 Habits To Follow For A Happy Life

Modern Wisdom

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How Much Brevity Can I Get Away With?

As new fields open up, the conceptual inertia hasn't propagated sufficiently quickly. It means that you end up with much more clunky articles for a short period of time until the whatever cultural overtune window has caught up. So my advice to the people at Wired, this is my standard device to the writers: You're not writing to your mom, you're notWriting to the 11th grader, you're writing to me. I am your audience. I am bored. And so if it's something, so you're trying to guess what is it that I know, of course, right? "I want to know what the article in Wired is talking about oysters"

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