[endymi0n]

This. I remember the day when I casually asked my cofounder, an amazing storyteller, how his day was.

He answered: „Awesome. I had 8 slides this morning. Now I have three.“

That day, something fundamentally clicked in me.

I learned that day that condensing and sharpening information towards a punchline is real, hard and meaningful work.

Or, as Mark Twain once said, “I didn’t have time to write you a short letter, so I wrote you a long one.”

[pklausler]

It was Blaise Pascal in his Lettres Provinciales.

[earleybird]

For an in depth review of the phrase: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/04/28/shorter-letter/

I am partial to Woodrow Wilsons' variation on the theme; something resonates when I'm asked to for a development/programming estimate.