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201 sats \ 1 reply \ @Scoresby 22h \ on: Deflation mostly_harmless
I suppose it's true that the paragraph words in articles are often there so the headings don't look naked. At least, "if it wasn't worth putting in the heading, why should I bother with it" is a plausible, if slightly unreasonable, subconscious path.
Certainly headings (and the increasing frequency at which they occur in writing) is something new(ish) with which both writers and readers are learning to contend.
I'm writing something just now. My routine is to write a paragraph or three and then return later to find some catchy summary for a heading. Is it the case that the paragraphs are mostly data and citation, while the headings contain the most digested analysis? Possibly.
Perhaps I should abandon headings altogether in favor of single sentence paragraphs a la Tractatus.
It's interesting how much work a writer can do for the reader, and the trade offs that different tech brings to bear - if you're in dandelion world, where there's trillions of things to read and write, taking great care is generally a bad investment. If you get one shot, you polish it like a gem.
I hadn't considered that as both a reading and writing strategy. And LLMs are a new thing entirely.
I like the "headings as proof of work" idea.
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