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Author here.

Yeah, definitely lots of personal preferences embedded in there haha

Personally, I find it easier to grok essays that focus on specifics. I can extract patterns out of examples, but it's harder to accurately do the reverse

I write in second-person because it's shorter, not because it's prescriptive. I'm definitely open to suggestions on how to soften things



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