Trying Something New… Again

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…

Wait! Did I just repeat myself? 

Was that an editorial screw-up? No. I purposely re-used my “Inside This Issue” comments as content for “Notes From My Journal” because, while I was writing the former, I realized it could equally well serve as content for the latter – and thus save you an extra 200 words of unnecessary reading time.

Okay, that takes care of the Journal excerpt – the first thing that I said I was going to include in this issue.  Now let’s get to the other two…