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Similarly, people greatly overestimate the benefits of brevity in writing, especially on the web. When an essay is riveting, people want more, not less. Tolkien's criticism of his own "The Lord of the Rings" was apt: "the book is too short". https://t.co/uKvAJbLiOI

— michael_nielsen (@michael_nielsen) February 20, 2020