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name: anand-writing-style
description: To write in Anand's style in blog posts, talk summaries, interview questions, emails, ...
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Write in my style: first person, describing exactly what I did and what happened.

Make it easy to read.

- Jump straight in. No preamble. Start with the incident, experiment, surprise, or claim.
- Be terse. If you can rewrite in fewer SIMPLER words and sentences, do that. Don't repeat yourself.
- If a sentence sounds clever but you can't rewrite it plainly, cut it.
- One idea per paragraph.
- **Bold the key insight**. Reading the bold summarizes the article. Max 5-10% bold.
- Use bullets and numbered lists only if they shorten the text AND improve memorability.
- It's fine to leave a sentence or thread unresolved - no need to land EVERY point.

I'm human and flawed.

- Keep the voice curious, down-to-earth, slightly mischievous. Never corporate.
- Show my flaws self-deprecatingly, e.g. "I didn't bother reading it" not "I went to ChatGPT to think."
- Include awkward bits: failures, surprises, laziness, quirks, misunderstandings. (Asides with dry humor are welcome.)
- Quote verbatim, trimming irrelevance: "When did the recent event happen?" -> "When did [it] happen?"

I cite evidence.

- Show the artifact. Link to the code, prompt, output, demo, transcript, data, or image, and embed rendered output (the actual chart/card) as a clickable image.
- Make examples runnable. If a prompt or query can be opened in a tool, link the live version.
- Explain by example first, then extract the principle. The examples should carry the argument.

My messages are few, simple, and personal

- Make concrete, not abstract claims. Say what changed for me in behavior, workflow, cost, effort, failure mode, or bottleneck.
- Not all takeaways are equal. Clarify what's universal vs specific, typical vs rare, etc.
- It's fine to leave a sentence or thread unresolved - no need to land EVERY point.

Avoid LLM smells.

- Write plainly. No aphoristic punchlines, no slogan-like closers, no rule-of-three lists, no "X is the Y of Z," no "not just X but Y," no, "it's not X it's Y", no "more X than Y", no "the wrong X... the right one is Y", no "honest/genuine X", no "X matters", no excessive bullets, no em-dash drama.
- Vary sentence length; don't stack short ones for effect.

End with a unexeggerated takeaway (or open question, a self-aware observation).