For clear writing, answer these questions

1. What Am I Really Trying To Say

2. Why Should People Care

3. What Is The Most Important Point

4. What Is The Easiest Way To Understand The Most Important Point

5. How Do I Want The Reader To Feel

6. What Should The Reader Do Next
A self-referential example that answers each of these 6 questions for the topic of “Writing Clearly”https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👇🏾" title="Rückhand Zeigefinger nach unten (durchschnittlich dunkler Hautton)" aria-label="Emoji: Rückhand Zeigefinger nach unten (durchschnittlich dunkler Hautton)">
Following up here, a collection of podcasts on writing:
https://twitter.com/lennysan/status/1287768766533664768?s=21">https://twitter.com/lennysan/... https://twitter.com/lennysan/status/1287768766533664768">https://twitter.com/lennysan/...
On being intentional about the effect you want to have on the audience—applies to any form of communication, including writing: https://twitter.com/shreyas/status/1294309503228231681">https://twitter.com/shreyas/s...
@anujmagazine has created a handy sketch of these 6 questions for clear writing, sharing it here: https://twitter.com/anujmagazine/status/1289547935311491072">https://twitter.com/anujmagaz...
Great, concise tips on good writing https://twitter.com/shreyas/status/1335431529464414208">https://twitter.com/shreyas/s...
Writing is important, but understand this hierarchy of skills and traits (Integrity > other skills) https://twitter.com/shreyas/status/1285751991390461953">https://twitter.com/shreyas/s...
Decomposition is quite useful for writing https://twitter.com/shreyas/status/1334555963651551232">https://twitter.com/shreyas/s...
Writing is a tool for more rigorous debates that help avoid dominance by strong personalities & gifted verbal debaters https://twitter.com/shreyas/status/1278899596421283840">https://twitter.com/shreyas/s...
Influential writing proactively answers the reader& #39;s subconscious questions https://twitter.com/shreyas/status/1311726528682631168">https://twitter.com/shreyas/s...
How can you accurately predict the reader& #39;s subconscious questions? Through Cognitive Empathy. A thread on it: https://twitter.com/shreyas/status/1291764637545816065">https://twitter.com/shreyas/s...
Do you want to Force, Inspire, or Perform Inception with your writing? https://twitter.com/shreyas/status/1328844298759016450">https://twitter.com/shreyas/s...
Important to remember (and easy to forget) when writing on Twitter https://twitter.com/shreyas/status/1335462306700902400">https://twitter.com/shreyas/s...
Fallacies you will encounter as a writer on Twitter (or almost any place online). Try not to get riled up about them, recognize them, and move on (hard, I know, but also do-able with practice) https://twitter.com/shreyas/status/1334742249540730881">https://twitter.com/shreyas/s...
This split of Mindset, Principles, and Tactics also applies to learning to be a better writer https://twitter.com/shreyas/status/1308402078184693760">https://twitter.com/shreyas/s...
Environment is at least as important for productive writing as the underlying ideas you will write about https://twitter.com/shreyas/status/1290462127275347975">https://twitter.com/shreyas/s...
Writing & clear thinking go hand-in-hand. You can& #39;t write well without having clarity of thought, and clarity of thought is often catalyzed by the process of writing.

A mega-thread on clear thinking (set aside a good amount of time if you want to read it) https://twitter.com/shreyas/status/1315543407331213314">https://twitter.com/shreyas/s...
An example of a well-written email, from Netflix: https://twitter.com/shreyas/status/958957429424766976">https://twitter.com/shreyas/s...
An example of a well-written paper:
http://how.complexsystems.fail"> http://how.complexsystems.fail 

Also available for download here:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228797158_How_complex_systems_fail">https://www.researchgate.net/publicati... https://twitter.com/shreyas/status/1342925329359257602">https://twitter.com/shreyas/s...
A couple more well-written papers

How to Share a Secret:
http://web.mit.edu/6.857/OldStuff/Fall03/ref/Shamir-HowToShareASecret.pdf

The">https://web.mit.edu/6.857/Old... Bitcoin paper:
https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf 

These">https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.p... papers concisely combined clear writing with mind-blowing creativity on the core subject matter of the writing.
My take:

Good Writing=Clarity×Concision

Great Writing=Clarity×Concision×Creativity

YMMV.
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