My recent blog post about categories was inspired by a discussion with Thomas about work he was doing on his site. Thomas then wrote a blog post in response to mine, and several people reached out with their ideas. I was delighted to see how much discussion and inquiry can come from a single blog post.

Source: Bringing people together with the web - James’ Coffee Blog

This used to be the norm. I am fairly confident that my preference for longer form writing isn’t just my penchant for verbosity / slowness in thinking. That it comes from trying to be more nuanced, articulate and hopefully more thoughtful.

That said, a part of me still accepts that there are obviously going to be people who have the clarity of thought without needing time to think. I think I’ve realized that I am not that person.

I believe that twitter’s constraints of 256 characters (128 characters) used to make me write better, but the speed of interaction made me think worse. Like, with anything, ymmv.