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How to Self-Undermine Effectively:

* Link to an oversize PDF of your PowerPoint presentation

* Present idea salad in bullet point format

* Use italics and bold to give your argument "turbo boost"

Actual quote: "Instead of doing what’s easy for you, do what’s easy for your reader."



I know you think you are being clever but you aren't. It was a well written PowerPoint that was saved as a PDF. So what?

I get so sick of some of the posts on HN by people who seemingly live to save something negative about anything.


Actual quote: "Instead of doing what’s easy for you, do what’s easy for your reader."

But that actual quote is an important point, expressed in few words: many inexperienced writers are "in love with the sound of their own voice" and forget to put themselves in the position of the reader.




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