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I've always wanted to attempt this piece: to take all the many layers of abstraction that we deal with, parse them, convert them, and render them through my formidable linguistic talents into one elegant, beautifully constructed piece of prose that magically makes it all comprehensible to lay readers. I haven't yet attempted it, but I give props to Mr. Ford for trying. I'm not surprised he ended up with a novella.

Oh, and why does bloomberg.com want to use my web cam?

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Worth noting -- it is roughly 38k words and is the longest piece ever published by Bloomberg.

Yes, it will tell you that at the end, and mock you if you arrive there too quickly to have read it all :).

It mocked me for having spent too much time reading it!

Does this brilliant webpage not know the concept of skimming and related approaches?

for some readers is skimming is like just skimming but not understanding the true essence of the article...and for some readers they like to read it a loud than with eye...I believe every human has their speed and capacity to do any task..in this case some people raise their speed of reading after reading certain paragraphs(not skimming) but reading literally.....and then they skim in the middle...if the speeds drops out...they read literally again....flow goes like a pulse....

It knows and mocks accordingly.

It can mock me all it wants. How is 10 words a second fake?

A quick google search showed that about 300 words per minute is average for an adult reading pace. I'm a slow reader so I'm probably right around there. So that's ~127 minutes to read all of this, not including time spent playing with the great animations. Probably better for me to get a bit more work done before I tackle the rest of this one (only read section 1 so far).

> Oh, and why does bloomberg.com want to use my web cam?

To capture your photo in the certificate of completion.

> I've always wanted to attempt this piece: to take all the many layers of abstraction that we deal with, parse them, convert them, and render them through my formidable linguistic talents into one elegant, beautifully constructed piece of prose that magically makes it all comprehensible to lay readers.

This is my own, personal, incomplete work in progress in that vein: http://www.leannotes.com/

I think I like your approach better... and no Clippy.

I agree with this and below comments. It took... considerable dedication... to keep reading it all the way to the end. I can't even comment on it directly as it was all over the place but with a nice integration/flow of the sub-topics. All I can call it is an experience lol.

I downloaded my certificate. Might put it on my resume. Evidence of willpower if nothing else. :)

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