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by progre 1276 days ago
I like the writing style. Compact sentences. Reminds me of Erlend Loe's first few books.
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I have been experimenting these past few years with an even more condensed style of writing which I have termed "Iceberg Articles".

Here is the iceberg article on the topic of Iceberg Articles:

https://john.kozubik.com/pub/IcebergArticle/tip.html

I think you'll get the idea, but here is another example which is a work in progress:

https://john.kozubik.com/pub/NetworkSlug/tip.html

... and yes, I am aware that the opposite of the "tip" of an iceberg is a "bummock" but I decided to just use "body".

Same here. I must be jaded because every time I click to read a story like this, I am fully expecting:

"Someone stole my bike. Here's how I got it back.

It was an unexpectedly warm day in the hills of Colorado, back in October of 1967. My father--or, rather the person who would eventually become my father, because he didn't yet know it--relaxed on the porch after finally getting to those weeds his mother had been pestering him to work on. My soon-to-be-mother, or at least the soon-to-be-bride to my father as they'd not met as of yet, rode her bicycle along a well-worn trail just outside the woods of rural Vermont.

Did you know that rural Vermont is where Bernie Sanders was born? Except that's not true because he was actually born in New York City some twenty five years earlier. Twenty-five, incidentally, being the age at which someone is eligible to serve in the United States Congress.

[sixteen paragraphs from the Australian parliament to Kevin Bacon later]

So, anyway, I was able to buy my bike back from the thief on Craigslist. I even negotiated the price down a whole $100!"

You must frequent the same recipe sites I do.
I find it quite the opposite, it seems pretentious. It seems to use stops where commas would usually be, making it less obvious where content is more related to the previous piece of content.