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Every blog post should have a TLDR like this one.

TL;DR: Michael Seibel will be the new CEO of YC Core, which we are now just going to call "YC". Ali Rowghani is now the CEO of the YC Continuity Fund. I’m going to be the President of YC Group, which includes Y Combinator, YC Continuity, YC Research, and our new online class. We’ll add more organizational units over time. We’re going to replace the Fellowship with a much larger MOOC launching next year.

The use of TL;DR bothers me because the word "summary" is appropriate or even "key points". It's not common use among all groups of people (old timers for example who also could read a blog post) and it really doesn't serve any clear purpose that "summary" does not.

But you still get the gist of it though, right?

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I try to use "summary" when I can as well.

I think few people know the full history of tl;dr. When it first started appearing, it wasn't used by the author, but in response to the author (like you wrote something way too long winded I'm not reading that)

Agree most probably don't know the history. TL;DR is a good example of how people can date themselves by how they communicate. They enter into something new and start to copy something that they see because they don't understand the nuance. Then the nuance disappears because of that new usage.

In reverse (with much older people) we have a few customers who pay by check and send a cover letter as well attached to the check (a formal holdover from olden times). Attaching the invoice is sufficient obviously.

In the Army we started everything with a BLUF (Bottom Line Up Front), a simple one sentence description about the presentation/email/whatever. One of the few things I miss...

I was just coming to say the same thing!

It's concise and let's me cherry-pick the sections below I'd like to read - better than a table of contents except in those magazines that provide a paragraph for each of their lead stories).

I'd like to see other sama stories in an abbreviated form too.

tldr.io has something like that and it integrates directly with HN.

http://tldr.io/browser-extension

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