One thing I struggle with is writing summaries. My natural inclination is to want to include every possible caveat and clarification, but then the summary turns into the whole essay. My general approach is to write the summary for someone with a lot of context who fully trusts me, and then in the rest of the post, assume low context / low trust.
If there are certain issues that people are particularly likely to get hung up on, it can make sense to include them in the summary. The fact that you had this confusion suggests that it’s common, so I figured it’s worth adding.
Yeah I’m explicitly not addressing #2 because it would require an entirely different approach. I can edit the intro to clarify.
Great, thanks for the edits! :)
Agreed that it’d take a different approach and you can’t be expected to do everything!
One thing I struggle with is writing summaries. My natural inclination is to want to include every possible caveat and clarification, but then the summary turns into the whole essay. My general approach is to write the summary for someone with a lot of context who fully trusts me, and then in the rest of the post, assume low context / low trust.
If there are certain issues that people are particularly likely to get hung up on, it can make sense to include them in the summary. The fact that you had this confusion suggests that it’s common, so I figured it’s worth adding.