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Another commenter has been downvoted for asking for a tldr, but I think it's a legitimate request. Can anyone here summarize?

The intro is so abstract ("stab at lightly theorizing") it doesn't actually introduce any point at all (what is the main takeaway of this light theory?). Skimming through the article it seems to be all over the place topically. The conclusion appears to be a word salad I can't make heads or tails of.

This is already highly upvoted, but I don't have the slightest idea what its point is and am clearly not the only one.

Can anyone who's read it enlighten us what it's about?

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> Skimming through the article it seems to be all over the place topically.

Well, the author does at least admit that: "So it’s going to be a sprawling, messy hot take on the State of Textual Media. Or at least a simmering take, since I’ve been thinking about this stuff for a year on the backburner".

Not that I disagree with you. My immediate reaction, rightly or not, was to remember the review comment 'It is not even wrong' [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_even_wrong

It's just about blogging and knowledge sharing tools. It's difficult to read for some because of its "postmodern" style, which is infamous for unorganized filler and amusing word salad. I cracked up about "extended universes escaped reality construction" and tools that "collapses high and low-level thinking into a single behavior."

It is his usual inflated post that manages to say very little with walls and walls of text.

I don’t see what folks find valuable in his writing. On top of that I find his recommendations to be bad since better alternatives exist but they obviously don’t fit his monetization strategy.

Well, at least one of the points is that splitting a blog post into a hundred loosely organized tweets (not to mention madness like one more tweet per like) is somehow awesome and revolutionary.

I guess this post itself would make an exemplary twitter thread.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22451215

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