New Malstrom article - Secret to the “Casual”

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I'm with Rol and the others on this one. When your game is so complicated to play that you have to have the instruction booklet in your lap just to survive, you know you've done something wrong.

And with regards to academic writing, whenever you write always remember who you are writing for and why. A lot of academics fall into the trap of writing in an overly complex manner simply because they can. An excellent example of a science writer who is extremely well qualified but writes very cogently is Gould (on evolution). Compared to many in his field, his writing is like a shining beacon of intelligibility unfettered by useless and pointless conventions.