Blog Best Practices

• Don’t waste people’s time.
  • Keep posts concisePut asides in hover-text.
• Don’t presume your assumptions are shared.
  • Assume reader has minimal context.
  • Establish or show why something matters, is interesting, or makes sense.

• Draft in-contextThat is, draft with a tight feedback loop, proofreading your draft in the browser.

• Literary techniques matter.
  • Tell a story, don’t give a lecture.

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