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by aerhardt 53 days ago
I've tried reading this and I can't. It's not that the text is AI generated, it's that the whole structure seems to be. (Hope you appreciate the irony of my LLMisms). It's not human-parseable, at least not by this human. And it's not that my attention is shot, luckily I'm still able to read copious amounts of long-form text and analysis.

Also, opening with "I'm a top performer"... That's not how writing for other humans works. It's perfectly legitimate to establish authority in the opening a piece, but you have to show some credible proof. "I'm a top performer" is immediately off-putting.

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Thank you for your feedback. These are fair points.

I get that "top performer" is off-putting. You're right that authority has to be earned in the text (and I hope I do that), not declared.

On the structure: yes, it's a novel format and I can see how that would be hard to parse. It won't work for everyone.

Both of these are artifacts of trying to blend research into the modern social-media driven world.