Thanks Yuri. If there's one piece of advice to give, it's that.

What I'm attempting to get at in this piece is a bit more tactical. The applications I reviewed all knew they should "be concise." But, they kept running into situations where they became more verbose while believing they were still concise.

My hope was to point out a few of the mental traps that would add clauses to sentences and sentences to paragraphs.

Great tl;dr summary. The example of the robot that drinks beer was a pretty good illustration of how much better being concise it, though.

It's actually one tip: Be concise

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