[fiskkastanj]

Dear Gwern, I very much appreciate everything you write. Your blog is in my top 3 quality blogs, nay, if not top 1!

But the posts are long. It's not something I say proudly, but often I read the first 3 pages but then lose focus and willpower. Maybe it's because English is my second language, maybe it's because there's so much to do in a day.

Not saying dumb-down. But if say 15% of readings end like they sometimes do for me, that's a big loss. Both for your reach and for the readers, who like me fail to get all the good stuff in there.

So as a fan giving feedback: a bit terser would not be wrong. I'm trying, and I'm using programs that let me 'save' my progress in a long text and get back after a coffee, but it's sometimes hard.

(Ironically, this is a big-ass 4 paragraph comment, haha)

[gwern]

I'm not sure what I can do about that. My posts aren't long (I think) because I spend a ton of space using sesquidealian and periphastic circumlocutions; what is there to cut?

[ChristianMarks]

Not to mention paralipsis.