Goals for this blog

This blog is for me to write about things I am interested in, improve my writing, & act as a professional portfolio. All writing here is entirely my own, not generated by computers other people. I am generally interested in topics under the umbrella's of Electrical Engineering, Programming, & Math (but not "computer science"), but still reserve the right to post an article about my Grandma's cookie recipe.

There are somethings that generally irritate me with other peoples writing, and I will endeavor to avoid them.

I don't like over-explanations. It's the writers role to explain interesting or novel ideas, and the readers role to think about those ideas. If you're explaining simple things for the reader, you're doing their chewing for them. I won't call out every caveat or nuance. I expect you to be able to understand & think about the nuances of my writing, and I consider that a fundamental show of respect between reader & writer.

I don't like frivolous dead-ends. Just because you wrote 30 pages doesn't mean your idea is worth more than 5 paragraphs. An important part of writing is cutting out extraneous material. If you haven't finished cutting, you're publishing a draft not a finished work.

I don't like heavily qualified language. If you're so insecure in your ideas you have to qualify everything until it's meaningless, don't publish it. An author should do enough research they can stand behind their ideas. To confidently state your ideas is to have skin in the game.

I strive to hold my writing to the standards I've laid out above.

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