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I just finished watching second season of Arcane.
One of the focal moments was this Silco’s monologue.
Delivered to Jinx when she’s sitting in a jail and going (even more) insane.

\begin{figure}[h!]\begin{quote}
Killing is a cycle. One that started long before Vander and me. And it will continue long after the two of you. [...] We build our own prisons. Bars forged of oaths, codes, commitments. Walls of self-doubt and accepted limitation. We inhabit these cells, these identities, and call them “us.” I thought I could break free by eliminating those I deemed my jailors. But... Jinx... I think the cycle only ends when you find the will to walk away.
\end{quote}\caption{Silco’s monologue, Arcane season 2 episode 8}\end{figure}

It wasn’t focal because it was a good monologue (it wasn’t one.)
Or because it coincided with episode name/topic (episode name was mostly meaningless.)
It was focal because I realized: I can’t understand it.
I had to read it as text to digest it.
Otherwise it was just white noise to me.

As I’ve already said,
\href{run:scrollbar}{I need scrollbars to allocate attention for reading}.
My attention deficit is that bad.
Yours is likely close to that.
That’s why we all need Three Minutes Writing.

As a writer, my goal is to deliver the idea.
In a form I myself can understand later.
Three Minutes Writing means:

\begin{itemize}\item Write small paragraphs and sections.
\item Add visual anchors:
\begin{itemize}\item sections,
\item lists,
\item code listings,
\item quotes.
\end{itemize}
\item Keep the language simple.
\item Keep the scrollbar big.
\item Optimize for three minutes of reading time!
\end{itemize}

My
\href{run:hypertext}{longer-form}
\href{run:prose-vs-tweet}{writing}
fails at these, and I often get comments like

\begin{figure}[h!]\begin{quote}
So chaotic writing. I try to distill the essence from this article, but it is jumping back and forth between different topics
\end{quote}\caption{u/Revolutionary_Ad7262 on Printf is Useless}\end{figure}

My sweet person, I can’t focus on it either.
Sorry.

So let’s all focus on Three Minutes Writing instead.
We need to understand each other, right?

See also
\href{https://todepond.com/wikiblogarden/academia/style/two-beat}{Two beat style by Lu Wilson}.


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\href{https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0}{CC-BY 4.0} 2022-2026 by Artyom Bologov (aartaka,)
\href{https://codeberg.org/aartaka/pages/commit/a91befa}{with one commit remixing Claude-generated code}.
Any and all opinions listed here are my own and not representative of my employers; future, past and present.
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