&gt; I don&#x27;t see what&#x27;s wrong with the trend of encouraging people not to use 5000 words when 50 would do.<p><i>If</i> 50 would do. That&#x27;s rarely the case.<p>Most of the time short articles aren&#x27;t the result of distilling hundreds of hours of wisdom down to an easily digestible few hundred words.<p>Instead they are the result of dropping all consideration of context and pushing a simplistic view. Or rushing junk out the door.<p>An article goes from:<p>&quot;Given our specific set of circumstances (industry, team size, project size, project makeup, technology stack, turnover, strategic direction, short term goals etc) X is great. We considered alternatives Y and Z but discarded them because of A, B, and C. We ran into issues D and E and were able to do F and G to work around them. We later found we had missed risk H in our analysis but we were lucky enough that it didn&#x27;t come up.<p>To:<p>&quot;X is great. We used it to increase our productivity by 10%.&quot;