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Smart writing won’t be in formal and difficult-to-understand journal articles, but in the profanity-laced angry rants you’ll find on someone’s blog. That’s where the smart people are, even if everybody else just thinks they’re dumb.

The trouble with this principle is, by Sturgeon's law, you are forced to sift through the 90+% of profanity-laced angry rants that aren't worth anything to find the few that are actually worthwhile.



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