Split is the new short
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Blaise Pascal famously commented in a letter that it was long because he didn’t have the time to make it shorter. Another possibility comes to mind, perhaps more appropriate for our era of small pieces loosely joined, of fragmentation of the units of content (think email, IM, posts, tweets, minute-long YouTube videos, individual iTune songs, Wikipedia articles…): he didn’t have the time to split it into many short letters.
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Interesting observation. I don’t know if most content out there is loosely joined—I think it might not even be joined at all. I met someone in real life for the first time, whose blog and podcast I’d read and listened to for a few months. His blog and podcast are on totally different topics. I could tell he thought it was strange that I’d checked both of them out in their entirety. It made me feel kind of like a stalker.