Social media got me spoiled. I’m used to reading short bursts of less than 200 characters.
When finding longer pieces that I want to read, I fall into the trap that most people will likely recognise: file it away for later, which means “never read it”. Browser bookmarks, del.icio.us, pinboard1 and now Notion haven’t saved me from this behaviour2.
For me, the sweet spot in post length seems to be somewhere around a hundred words or less, see for example Manton Reece‘s posts, that I find comfortable to read.
Writing something in under a hundred words is less easy than it looks though.
- Sadly, Maciej Cegłowski appears to be a dreadful person ↩︎
- There is something that I want to try with this blog related to bookmarking though. ↩︎