[jasonallen]

Good writing has similarities to good UI in that you have to relate to your audience. I'm a fan of this topic and appreciate your thoughts on it. However I found your article too long for my taste and attention span. Your complaints get lost in the enormity of it all.

[Mithaldu]

He's writing for exactly the right audience: The people who appreciate this kind of long-form thing and support him via Patreon, i.e. actual money.

Your post would've been better spent by suggesting a TL;DR paragraph at the top.

[exolymph]

I was about to question your pronoun use because I thought eev.ee was a woman, but then I checked their about page and encountered this: "I respond to any pronoun; pick your favorite." Interesting approach.

[pandatigox]

Just as an aside, I checked out his Patreon page, and it looks like he earns around $850 a month for blogging. With that kind of money rolling in, you'd expect some pretty long essays. Or high quality short ones.

[cwyers]

That kind of money? That's not enough money to live in a cardboard box and eat ramen noodles three meals a day.

[exolymph]

Au contraire! Cardboard box: free (salvageable). 90 packs of generic ramen: $90 at most.

[justinjlynn]

Malnutrition and exposure leading to chronic ill health and reduced lifespan: priceless.

[pandatigox]

I'm assuming that he is not making a living solely based on his blogging. It's seems like a side gig, to be honest

[glogla]

Depends on where you live. I bet you could comfortably live for few months for 820 USD in Thailand.

[anon4]

You don't have to go all the way to Thailand. Eastern Europe (and I do mean the part within the EU!) is livable on that salary or even as low as 500USD if you're really frugal and literally eat beans, oats and rice all day.

[calinet6]

I wholeheartedly agree with this sentiment, despite the thoughtful responses (with which I also agree in some ways).

Writing should be clear, well-organized, and purposeful. Writing that is not, is not. Quality is self-evident.

It's not particularly worth spending a great deal of time criticizing, but it is an entirely valid point. I took very little of value from reading this in full. I say that as a product designer myself; I agree with some of the points, and a lot of what was said was correct (a lot seemed to be conjecture or just plain wrong as well...), but it just didn't come together to anything meaningful.