The reason I love aphorisms, and philosophical fragments from the pre-Socratic philosophers is this: greater information density. In other words, cut to the chase. When it comes to knowledge and information, the more condensed, simpler, and the stronger it is, the better.
For example, I learned from the Nassim Taleb the reason why many books and publications have a two column or three or four column design is that it allows more information and text to fit on a single page. When information has a higher density, we can read it quicker, and ingest the information quicker.
Anti verbosity
The reason why I hate reading a lot of modern books is this: it is too verbose, too many words. Rather than distilling the information and making it as simple and short as possible, it seems that a lot of these authors feel that they need to write a really thick and long book, in order to feel self legitimacy. Or perhaps fulfill to their editors or book publisher a certain word count.
This is why reading a lot of highbrow literature is insanely boring to me, like reading the New Yorker. It seems that people like to almost self masturbate themselves with words. The more verbose, the more words, the more fancy adjectives, the better.
Couldn’t this book just have been a long blog post?
Whenever I go to Barnes & Noble and look at the shelves of modern day books, and business books, I think to myself: couldn’t this have just been a really long blog post? And in actuality, it often is. A lot of book publishers Will stumble upon bloggers, or viral blog post, and approach the author with a book deal to expand the notion and publish it as a book. But does it need to be published as a book? Most often not, but it sells books.
Why making PowerPoint presentations is an art form
I really love looking at simple, and bold presentation slides. Why? The presenter needs to distill all of their knowledge as simple as possible. There is a certain will to simplicity especially when it comes to PowerPoint slides.
Why I prefer watching movies instead of TV series
It takes more skill to condense an entire universe and storyline in a two hour film,