memoir: "People" editing sweep through Facebook meltdown
authorM. Taylor Saotome-Westlake <ultimatelyuntruethought@gmail.com>
Fri, 9 Jun 2023 01:37:50 +0000 (18:37 -0700)
committerM. Taylor Saotome-Westlake <ultimatelyuntruethought@gmail.com>
Fri, 9 Jun 2023 01:51:43 +0000 (18:51 -0700)
I managed to cut 200 words, at least? Friend of the blog Ninety-Three
argues that the psychosis stuff that follows isn't that relevant to
the Whole Dumb Story I'm telling about the "rationalists". From here
to the end of the post, I want to be significantly more aggressive
about cutting wordcount (and conservative in adding wordcount for the
couple of remaining TODO sections).

I want to keep generalizable intellectual insights, but cut any
autobiographical details or psychosis-dream specifics that aren't
unusually cute or funny. It might be good to open with a high-level
graf or two about why writing about psychosis is hard, but why I have
to say something about it anyway. (If I explain my high-level
takeaways up front, I'll feel less inhibited about cutting details
that don't matter.)


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