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I have noticed that when I wrote blog posts they tend to fall in one of the two categories. Sometimes I'm trying to share an insight, in which case I make sure not to bury the lede[1]. Sometimes it's the journey to the insight that matters more than the insight itself[2], in which case the narrative take precedence, even if it buries the lede.

In some cases it is possible to combine both, by using the storytelling formula that starts describing the outcome and then traces back to how things ended up that way.

[1]: The lede is in the title, even! https://entropicthoughts.com/code-reviews-do-find-bugs

[2]: This is all meandering discovery. https://entropicthoughts.com/deploying-single-binary-haskell...




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