Reader-Generated Essays - by Henrik Olof Karlsson
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An essay is made up of two layers: the ideas, and the language in which they are expressed.
An essay is made up of two layers: the ideas, and the language in which they are expressed. The story of Red Riding Hood, and the words of a particular retelling of that story. The idea of a fully programmable blockchain, and the language that Vitalik Buterin used to carry that idea in the Ethereum White Paper. Thinking and communicating are two separate processes, even if they often happen at the same time. And both make great demands on your mental faculties: often I do not have enough capacity to cope with writing and thinking at the same time; the thoughts suffer when I wrestle with…
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