By AnimalMuppet
It’s not that “I’m very important”. It’s not even that I don’t have time to read a long article. I don’t have time to read nearly as many long articles as there are out there, though.
And to me, it feels like the shoe’s on the other foot. To me, a long form article is the author deciding that he/she’s so important (or the content is) that I will find it worth the time to read the whole thing, and that it’s therefore fine to hide the main point somewhere in the length, because I’ll get the point so much better if I go through all the rest of it as well. That’s fine for those who like that kind of thing, but, well, let’s just say that it’s unattractive to more and more readers as we have more and more things that we want to read.
For it to be worth my while, this article has to be worth more than whatever I didn’t have time to read because I took the time to read this one. The longer the article is, the higher that bar is, because the more I could have read with the same time.
Read more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10741427
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