Simple, Short, Elegant

The original Bitcoin paper from Satoshi… only 8 pages long???

Don’t trust long papers

I think this is the simple heuristic:

If a paper is too long and convoluted, it is no good.

Why?

Typically when a paper is too long, it is a signal that “something didn’t distill right!” Taleb

Or for me —

When a paper is too long, it is a signal that the author doesn’t really know what they’re talking about, or the idea is too convoluted and requires *MORE* text and *MORE* fake graphs and statistics and fake math to support their feeble point(s).