You cannot win the volume game against a machine.
The supply of long-form writing has gone to infinity, so its price in human attention has gone to zero. Seth Godin still writes blog posts of 300 to 500 words. Cutting your own prose that hard takes guts.
Stop typing when you've said all you have to say.
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/why-500-words-beats-5000-in-the-age
JA Westenberg
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