Jeffrey Zeldman blogs about taking time to edit now that text is free and abundant:
Brevity was always a discipline. Now it’s a statement. When everything around you is excessive by default, choosing fewer words takes courage. It says: I thought about this.
“I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.”
— Blaise Pascal
@vincent It is. Often misattributed to Mark Twain. It’s argued he was the first ‘modern’ writer/ thinker and that’s in the 17th century!
@manton Really love this as I’m trudging through reviewing what are clearly LLM-driven RFCs a work, often feeling like when kids padded their essays with useless words to hit the minimum length. Maybe that was the original sin! 😂
