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Can We Just Have a Bar?

August 21, 2026

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Our own briefs had turned into number, number, number, with nothing telling a reader what any of them meant. So I stopped trying to grade them one at a time and asked for a single bar instead. A clear yes or no to one question: does this count, number, or quantification add value? Try it on the last thing you wrote. Most numbers do not survive it.

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