[pithanyChan]

> if it took less time to write than it would take someone to read, it’s probably not worth writing.

Disagree. If it took less thinking than it will take reading, then yes, probably not worth it. But if you can trim your writing to the pith in every paragraph or even line, people will love you.

Too many people babble to keep the underlying lies and fraud and their complicity burried in narratives.

[_t9ow]

> trim your writing to the pith in every paragraph or even line

This takes a lot of time. Writing concisely is much more challenging and time-consuming than writing verbosely. Writing unnecessarily long essays means that your readers end up spending more time reading them than you did writing them.

As Blaise Pascal wrote: "I only made this letter longer because I had not the leisure to make it shorter."

[jrflowers]

I like this post about the value of brevity that starts with “disagree”, immediately agrees with what it’s responding to, and then goes on to talk about a completely unrelated thing