I’d rather see how the they came to their conclusions than read a bunch of bullet points.
Obviously it's a free world to disagree, but if I were his editor I'd tell him his blog posts are ineffective because it's rambling, and if he presents it more concisely, more people would appreaciate it.
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18358902 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15965653
Do you also think these were bad / annoying to read?
(The reason I ask is because I started a newsletter at the beginning of the year and have been trying to emulate his style. But if people genuinely hate it, then I obviously don’t want to follow it. :))
Upvotes might not mean much, maybe other information addicts saw a dense page and "ooh, endorphins, upvote".
After a certain point it just got exhausting to follow. Reading is simple, but looking at images so I can agree with the conlusion he made tasks the brain.
Oh, the moat article even has footnotes that scrolls to the end of the page and you then have to click back... god damn, how!!!
If he was in a conference room presenting a slideshow (each image being a slide), how long would his presentation be? At what point does he lose the majority of the audience? At least with slides people usually point out what they want you to pay attention to, and they don't do 7 slides of examples for one point (like the "look, Google Maps has outlines of buildings!" in the moat article).
