Too much and too little…

I wrote a series on designing for the platform that I’d come to as part of my career of having worked as a software developer and a designer of software. I was accused by many peers of having written too much, making my work too hard to approach, and requiring too much time on the reader’s side to understand my work.

I appreciate brevity, certainly and if you follow me here you’ll often see I write haiku every once in a while — I love the restriction and brevity of the form and how it can help to conjure up some amazing ideas in the reader’s mind. So I do get it.

But, I am also in middle of reading Ron Chernow’s tomb, Hamilton. It’s 731 pages and the book I have has a very small font tightly fit to the page. It’s dense. I appreciate it.

And I say all of this because sometimes you gotta dedicate yourself to going deep. Chernow covers the details and provides an insight you cannot get from a lighter-weight treatment.

I’m not gonna complain to you about the current fad of extreme brevity…media has since forever chased the “click bait”, go read about the 19th century’s Yellow Journalism. Sensationalism, attention, grabbing junk has been around for a long long time. That thing we called Twitter was just a new fangled approach to this and gave everyone the power of the tease. The tease through short, eye popping phrases to pull…