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by useflyer 4655 days ago
Markdown is like Vim -- sure, it might speed up your output, if that's your sole focus. And its not meant to be adopted en masse.

I'm a designer and relatively intelligent person by trade, and I have a difficult time with markdown. It requires me to have a guide open, to be able to write. No "normal folks" I know can decipher markdown.

The trick is to make styling easy -- not to make styling an afterthought. The writer, writing on Medium, should recognize this.

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> relatively intelligent person by trade

Interesting trade. Your place doesn't need someone of mediocre intelligence do they?