Fwiw, while I have some sympathy with the arguments you advance (and haven’t managed to form an opinion on much of it), I find the level of snark in your writing offputting.
For what it’s worth, I have the opposite reaction, and between the OP having higher quality arguments and less snark, would strongly prefer higher quality arguments.
You can imagine that OP has limited opportunities or interest or time to improve, and can only focus on one thing. In that case I’d strongly encourage focusing on higher quality arguments over better style, as I usually find the lack of the former much more offputting than the latter.
I find it hard to believe that leaving out snarky comments is a drain on anyone’s productivity, let alone that the movement should encourage norms where we assume our value is so high that the risks of snark-deprivation outweigh the benefits.
I don’t think the claim from Linch here is that not bothering to edit out snark has led to high value, rather that if a piece of work is flawed both in the level of snark and the poor quality of argument, the latter is more important to fix.
Fwiw, while I have some sympathy with the arguments you advance (and haven’t managed to form an opinion on much of it), I find the level of snark in your writing offputting.
For what it’s worth, I have the opposite reaction, and between the OP having higher quality arguments and less snark, would strongly prefer higher quality arguments.
It’s not a trade-off!
You can imagine that OP has limited opportunities or interest or time to improve, and can only focus on one thing. In that case I’d strongly encourage focusing on higher quality arguments over better style, as I usually find the lack of the former much more offputting than the latter.
I find it hard to believe that leaving out snarky comments is a drain on anyone’s productivity, let alone that the movement should encourage norms where we assume our value is so high that the risks of snark-deprivation outweigh the benefits.
I don’t think the claim from Linch here is that not bothering to edit out snark has led to high value, rather that if a piece of work is flawed both in the level of snark and the poor quality of argument, the latter is more important to fix.
Yes, this is what I mean. I was unsure how to be diplomatic about it.