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I'm 15 minutes into this video and just had to pause to thank you.

This guy is fantastic. He has changed how I see the world.

Thank you.

Wow; I don’t think I’ve ever watched a hour-plus lecture recommended by an Internet stranger before today. Thank you for sharing this. I was compelled by zomglings’ review and the value (heh) was apparent by minute ~15 as promised. Reframing how I think about writing has me wanting to rewrite the thousand-odd pages I’ve published (blog posts, notes, etc.) over the past few years...

Feedback about writing quality has been hard for me to address. This video clearly explains the difference between the way students learn to write and the way we should write in the "real world". The ideas are easy to apply and, in hindsight, embarrassingly obvious.

This is the best YouTube video I've watched in a long time. Thanks for posting it. (The same lecture from the previous year is also there, and though it overlaps a lot, also worth watching.)