Comments on: On the value of conciseness https://programmingzen.com/on-the-value-of-conciseness/ Meditations on programming, startups, and technology Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:39:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Masci https://programmingzen.com/on-the-value-of-conciseness/#comment-3467 Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:39:00 +0000 http://antoniocangiano.com/2008/04/19/on-the-value-of-conciseness/#comment-3467 Two points:
1) Style. Can you write as Seth does? If so, write!, because reading Seth is often quick and fun. Otherwise, write as you can, I like the way you write as I’m sure other readers do!

2) Contents. Have you got stories to tell which can be embedded in few words? If so, write about them!, because nowadays people have to select, and often tend to apply a shortest-jobs-first policy. Otherwise, don’t strip your essays just to keep them short!

Hope this comment was not verbose… 🙂

]]> By: Jeff Waugh https://programmingzen.com/on-the-value-of-conciseness/#comment-3455 Mon, 21 Apr 2008 00:54:06 +0000 http://antoniocangiano.com/2008/04/19/on-the-value-of-conciseness/#comment-3455 Speaking of concision, the title should be, “On the value of concision”. 🙂

]]> By: Taryn East https://programmingzen.com/on-the-value-of-conciseness/#comment-3454 Mon, 21 Apr 2008 00:52:32 +0000 http://antoniocangiano.com/2008/04/19/on-the-value-of-conciseness/#comment-3454 Agreed. Nothing should stop you from posting – don’t censor yourself based on whether a topic seems worthy of a long post. Short posts are just as worthy – and they are valued, much as the daily news is valued, even though it isn’t a PhD thesis on the cultural history of a region. 🙂

]]> By: Al https://programmingzen.com/on-the-value-of-conciseness/#comment-3424 Sun, 20 Apr 2008 12:10:39 +0000 http://antoniocangiano.com/2008/04/19/on-the-value-of-conciseness/#comment-3424 I think there is definitely room for both long and short posts, the key is that in either format you provide your users with good content.

If you can manage that and I’m more than confident that you can, you’ll free yourself from having to always write ‘long’ posts.

]]> By: David Backeus https://programmingzen.com/on-the-value-of-conciseness/#comment-3420 Sun, 20 Apr 2008 11:14:57 +0000 http://antoniocangiano.com/2008/04/19/on-the-value-of-conciseness/#comment-3420 If you feel like writing 3000 words then write 3000 words. If you feel like writing 50 words then write 50 words. In the end it won’t be the length but the interest in the topic at hand that matters for your audience. Some topics require a lot of words some dont. Don’t restrict yourself by setting up some kind of pointless convention on how long posts are going to be in this place. It’s your blog, just write about stuff that interests you within the realm of programming in as many words as are needed, no more, no less.

Thanks for keeping on posting your stuff. And by the way, I’ve been following this blog for quite some time and I’m still curious about the connection to Zen you have. It’s up there in the title but never really mentioned in your posts.

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