BW, a BJJ friend and colleague who tells me he looks forward to reading what I have to say about this or that, told me last weekend that he dreads opening my blog posts because he fears they will be 40 pages long. He’s not the first to lodge this complaint. I not only recognize its fairness, I sympathize with it 100%. As I said to him, “You dread reading them? How do you think I feel about writing them?!

I have been trying various strategies to reduce the load on my readers (and myself) – and I have reduced the average length from about 20,000 words at peak garrulousness to about 4,000.

Today, I’m taking an even more drastic step. I’m going to slash the word count to under 1,000 by limiting the content to just three things: (1) an excerpt from my Journal, (2) a celebrity interview that I loved and wanted to share with you, and (3), as a PS, a short, comic video about Apple vs. Android users that I think is very clever.

Shorter issues may mean more issues, so let me know if you like/hate this short format.