Conserving words, and time

I have a blog. My thoughts … they go in the blog. I take time to write them down. I hope people read them People are supposed to read them.

So when a colleague asked me the other day what I thought of the Modernista! redesign, I said, “check Debatable Value, my blog. I wrote about it a few days ago.”

Yes, that’s right. I took the opportunity to end what would have otherwise been an interesting conversation with a blatant plug for my blog.

Offensive!

But it could have been even more so. Therefore, effective immediately, I will be replacing the aforementioned lengthy plug for my blog with something more concise:

BLOG!

I’m proud of this achievement. It is the best worst best example of a behavior that I inherited from my parents, and then advanced: a few years ago, my mother started answering conversation-starting questions with this confounding conversation-ender: “Do a search.”

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Also:

• More on the benefits of brevity; from the design blog, A Brief Message.