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by tptacek 2934 days ago
Mail us any time for a refund. :)

I'm fucking around, but really the answer is: if we didn't have the presumptive informality of a "blog" or some-such, we just wouldn't write; we'd get 20% of the way through a draft and just pick at it, hoping to make it more correct and authoritative, until our will to keep going evaporated. I have a whole folder full of things I started doing that with.

The in-jokes and snark are what trick us into writing in the first place. There's no getting rid of it.

I'm hopeful that people can at least appreciate that we aren't confining this stuff to Twitter threads anymore.

2 comments

The jokes make it readable as well as writeable. Keep them.
I, for one, appreciate it. Thanks for taking the time to publish!