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Interesting we get so many likes here, as I can’t stand this style. It’s the same annoying pretentiousness Paul Graham’s peddles. Karlsson even calls his blog posts essays just like PG!

These authors have this habit of reflecting on their live experiences and trying to make some sense out of them (a time honed and worthy pursuit!), but then moving into thought leader / self help / linkedin territory by making every other sentence an imperative in second person person singular.

A sentence like —

The context is smarter than you. It holds more nuance and information than you can fit in your head. Collaborate with it.

Could be

The context is smarter than me. It holds more nuance and information than I can fit in my head. I keep telling myself to collaborate with it.

And it wouldn’t annoy me half as much. It would feel as if a peer wants to share experiences with me, whereas now I feel like I’m being shouted at by a middle manager.