How To Win Titular Metagames

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How To Win Titular Metagames How To Win Titular Metagames Attention is your scarcest resource ; considerate creators respect your attention. Good titles help internet curators efficiently route information to relevant aggregators. Good titles permit readers to quickly estimate the relative value of articles, essays, videos, etc. Everybody wins when titles are accurate. This is how I title my essays. These concepts also apply to book covers, video thumbnails, etc. Notice the title. It's not "How I Choose Titles for My Essays". No, no, you wouldn't have clicked on that title. Here's the dilemma:

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