Voted up since this doesn’t deserve it’s low score, but I’ll echo what some other commenters are saying- don’t spend so much time discussing your own meandering thought processes. It is not an effective writing style. You’re not writing a whodunnit, you don’t need to worry about spoiling the ending—give me the main points immediately so I can think about them while reading the rest.
With regards to the content, what examples can you give of a documented (or UNdocumented) reasoning process? If you’re suggesting this as a normative procedure to follow, how do you plan on overcoming the enormous transaction costs this places on conversations?
(For what it’s worth I fell into the same trap of writing a post, revising it heavily, getting tired of it, declaring “its done” and receiving a lukewarm response when I submitted it. My advice would be to simply put it aside for a week or so, then return to it with a more rested/critical eye.)
In particular, when you find yourself including a Monty Python reference suggesting, “I know this sucks, but I am sophisticated enough to laugh at myself about it,” then you should realize that it is time to start over.
Voted up since this doesn’t deserve it’s low score, but I’ll echo what some other commenters are saying- don’t spend so much time discussing your own meandering thought processes. It is not an effective writing style. You’re not writing a whodunnit, you don’t need to worry about spoiling the ending—give me the main points immediately so I can think about them while reading the rest.
With regards to the content, what examples can you give of a documented (or UNdocumented) reasoning process? If you’re suggesting this as a normative procedure to follow, how do you plan on overcoming the enormous transaction costs this places on conversations?
(For what it’s worth I fell into the same trap of writing a post, revising it heavily, getting tired of it, declaring “its done” and receiving a lukewarm response when I submitted it. My advice would be to simply put it aside for a week or so, then return to it with a more rested/critical eye.)
In particular, when you find yourself including a Monty Python reference suggesting, “I know this sucks, but I am sophisticated enough to laugh at myself about it,” then you should realize that it is time to start over.