Making My Content More Easily Digestible

Over the past few months a recurring theme has emerged in my inbox, as well as within the community channel, and it is one that I have been chewing on for a while now. Several of you have, kindly and very politely, told me more or less the same thing, which is that even though the topics I write about are interesting enough, the posts themselves have grown so long and so dense that actually getting through one of them has turned into something of a commitment rather than the casual read it probably ought to be. I cannot really argue with that, because it is true. Whenever I sit down to write about something like Bureaucracy is Eating the World, or A Word on Omarchy, or Doubting Your Favorite Web Search Engine, I find myself pulled in two directions at once. On the one hand I want to be accurate and diligent, which in practice means citing my sources, anticipating the counter-arguments, and walking through the reasoning (and in many cases evidence) step by step instead of asking the…