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by pstoll 813 days ago
The classic “big reveal” style of communication - hiding the important thing until half way through. Don’t bury the lede! It confuses and distracts the reader who is looking for how to frame and read everything else.

“SLC = simple, lovable, complete. Let me tell you why this is better than MVP.”

It ain’t hard, folks.

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It was so annoying that I just skimmed through until I found the bolded terms, realized I disagree with the hot take and closed the tab without further reading. Maybe I'm wrong to do so and missed out on some invaluable piece of advice, but if the message is this boring, confusing and wasteful of the reader's time, maybe that's not on me
You did fine. "Knowing what not to read is the wonder weapon", to repurpose the old joke.

Every paragraph without a thesis statement loses another significant fraction of readers.

Thank you! Didn’t even bother to read it when it wasn’t immediately clear what SLC means.