Re:Beware the Man of Many Studies
by mitthrowaway2 on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @10:08AM
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I'm not going to defend the content, but I am going to defend the format.
Is the blog post overly long? Or are we just accustomed to short-and-juicy articles aimed at the declining attention spans of the twitter era?
It's about 3700 words, which is about the length of a high school term paper. Substack lists it as a "17 minute read". Firefox says 21-24.
Reality has a lot of detail and for something that actually aims to get technical rather than just skimming the surface, it often takes several paragraphs to analyze different facets of a complex question.
In a different era, this article would have been considered an appropriate length for a magazine.
Is the blog post overly long? Or are we just accustomed to short-and-juicy articles aimed at the declining attention spans of the twitter era?
It's about 3700 words, which is about the length of a high school term paper. Substack lists it as a "17 minute read". Firefox says 21-24.
Reality has a lot of detail and for something that actually aims to get technical rather than just skimming the surface, it often takes several paragraphs to analyze different facets of a complex question.
In a different era, this article would have been considered an appropriate length for a magazine.