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写得更多，但更短
Write More, but Shorter
导读
这是一篇主张「多写、但写短」的博客文章：作者认为篇幅越短，读的人越多，并用帕累托法则（80% 的价值在 20% 的篇幅里）解释为何要砍掉五分之四。对写作者的价值在于，它把「写短」从文风偏好提升为一种训练思考清晰度的方法，评论区的补充也让「公开写作」和「为读者压缩信息」变得可操作。
可以直接用的写作要点
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写完之后先砍掉一大半，只留下真正承载价值的那 20%，篇幅本身就是对读者的尊重。
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把「写得短」当作检验自己是否想清楚的测试：说不短、说不清，往往说明思路还没有整理好。
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与其写给自己看，不如公开发布，公开带来的轻微压力和反馈能把写作变成可持续的日常习惯。
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用要点列表把核心信息前置，既方便快速阅读，也顺带照顾到阅读负担较重的读者。
HN 评论精选
每日公开写作是整理和修正自己想法的工具，公开性能让习惯坚持下去。
我就是这篇文章第一句提到的那个人。我一年多的每个工作日都发一篇博客（今天是第 280 篇），这改变了我的人生。它现在是我搞清自己对一件事怎么想、把想法固化下来并发现想法之间联系的首选方法。我在写博客时发现自己想换工作（九个月前已经入职新工作）；写博客时发现我不是内向者，而是害羞的外向者；又由此意识到自己有社交焦虑。还有很多类似的例子，我常常惊讶地发现：动笔时我并不真的相信我以为自己相信的东西。写日记坚持不下来，因为像在干活；但把它公开后变得足够令人兴奋和有成就感，于是成了我每天期待的习惯。
mcrittenden查看英文原文
Oh hey, I'm the person mentioned in the first sentence of this post. I was wondering why my stats went up today! I've published a blog post every weekday for over a year now (today's was #280). It's been life changing for me. It's now my go-to method for figuring out what I think about something and for crystallizing those thoughts and finding links between them. - I figured out that I wanted a new job while writing a blog post (and I started that new job 9 months ago). - I learned that I'm not an introvert, but rather a shy extrovert, while writing a blog post. - That led into me realizing I have social anxiety while writing a blog post. There are lots more examples of that. I'm often surprised to find that I don't actually believe what I thought I believed when I started writing that blog post. Journaling never stuck for me because it felt like work, but making it public made it exciting and fulfilling enough to become a habit that I look forward to each day. Since the author mentioned Zettelkasten, I'll add this: https://critter.blog/2021/02/10/blogging-as-a-zettelkasten/
写得长而散通常是思路混乱的信号，写短能倒逼清晰的心智模型。
我记不清原始出处，但 Leslie Lamport 在《Specifying Systems》里引用过一句话：「写作是大自然提醒你思维有多邋遢的方式。」一般来说，如果你写出来的东西又长又散，很可能说明你对主题的理解是混乱的（不是说你不懂，而是想法东一块西一块）。如果你能在相当短的篇幅里把要说的说清楚，说明你对所讲内容有比较好的心智模型，而这是可以学会的、很有用的技能。我发现练习写「未来的自己真的会去读的笔记」对此帮助很大。
tombert查看英文原文
I don't remember the original source, but in Leslie Lamport's Specifying Systems book, he quoted someone saying "Writing is nature's way of telling you how sloppy your thinking is." Generally, if you're writing long, rambling posts, there's a good chance that your understanding of the subject that you're writing about is sloppy (not to say you don't understand it, just that your thoughts are all over the place). If you can express what you're writing in a fairly short amount of time, you probably have a relatively good mental model of what it is you're tying to say, and this is a learnable (and useful) skill. I've found that getting into the practice of writing "notes that I will actually read in the future" has helped a lot with this.
把干货用要点直接给出，是无障碍设计，也是对所有读者都更好的写法。
就在今天早上，我一位有阅读障碍的朋友说他喜欢用要点式写作，因为阅读对他而言非常费力。他希望文章直接把干货用要点列出来，而不是把实际信息摊在好几页的废话里。这让我意识到，写作时把阅读障碍者放在心上，是那种能同时提升所有人可读性的做法。
andai查看英文原文
Just this morning my dyslexic friend said he loves to write in bullet points, because reading is very labor-intensive for him. He wished that articles would just give you the meat in bullet points instead of spreading the actual information out over several pages of fluff. That made me realize, keeping dyslexic people in mind when writing is one of those things that improves accessibility for everyone.
写作也可以是自我消化的过程，未必都要为读者压缩成短文。
补一条不同类型的视角：并不是所有人都为了被人读而写。很多人写作是为了清理自己的信息与情绪垃圾，是一种自我照顾，而那常常表现为一大堆文字（尤其配上咖啡因之后）。写得越久，我的写作越偏这个方向；不过我也不再靠博客获客或赚钱，不太在意读者数据了——分界线是不是在这里？如果有人真想要短版本，他会发邮件给我，多半会收到一个让人失望的回复。
tombert查看英文原文
I don't remember the original source, but in Leslie Lamport's Specifying Systems book, he quoted someone saying "Writing is nature's way of telling you how sloppy your thinking is." Generally, if you're writing long, rambling posts, there's a good chance that your understanding of the subject that you're writing about is sloppy (not to say you don't understand it, just that your thoughts are all over the place). If you can express what you're writing in a fairly short amount of time, you probably have a relatively good mental model of what it is you're tying to say, and this is a learnable (and useful) skill. I've found that getting into the practice of writing "notes that I will actually read in the future" has helped a lot with this.
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