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Jan 15, 2013
bradj
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21 Reasons Why List Posts are Lame

  1. They are woefully contrived.
  2. They are overwhelming in their bombast.
  3. They contain no nuance.
  4. They are generally deeply egocentric.
  5. They require little thought to write.
  6. They require little thought to read.
  7. They do not inspire change.
  8. They do not inspire hope.
  9. They do not inspire.
  10. They usually come off sounding imperiously smug.
  11. They also typically sound exceedingly whiny.
  12. They are written from profound insecurity to impress readers.
  13. They entrench the people who agree.
  14. They radicalise those who don’t.
  15. They tend to be too broad.
  16. They tend to be too shallow.
  17. They always include the odd overreach.
  18. They are ultimately ineffective.
  19. They end up sounding painfully redundant.
  20. They end up sounding painfully redundant.
  21. They end up sounding painfully redundant.
  22. Their authors regularly lose track of the number they set out to write.

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My name is Brad, and I'm a recovering mortal.

That's my whole bio on twitter. It doesn't tell people that I'm a husband, a father, tell what kind of job I do, what kind of computer I use to do it, what kind of car I drive to get there or give any other identifiers.

I'm just sharing the most important thing.

I'm addicted to the temporal, but I'm in recovery. I don't even know exactly what that means or what it looks like. But I won't let that stop me.

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