Wow that was unusual. I just wrote an really long comment but after I clicked submit my comment didn't appear. Grrrr... well I'm not writing all that over again. Anyways, just wanted to say fantastic blog!
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Started forming counter examples to test the claims and the post handled most of them implicitly, and a look at agatebrindle continued that anticipatory style, writers who think two steps ahead of the critical reader save themselves from a lot of follow up work and this writer has clearly internalised that habit consistently.
Took longer than expected to finish because I kept stopping to think, and a stop at elmwoodgumbo did the same to me, content that provokes thought rather than just delivering information is in a different category and the team here is clearly working at that higher level rather than just cranking out posts.
However selective I am about new bookmarks this one made it past my filter, and a look at flaxbeech confirmed the bookmark was worth the slot, the precious slots in my permanent bookmark folder are difficult to earn and this site earned one without making me think twice about whether the slot was justified by the quality.
Ended up here on a wandering afternoon and was glad I stayed for the read, and a stop at glybrow extended the wandering into a proper exploration of the site, the kind of place that rewards aimless clicking with something genuinely interesting rather than the shallow content that mostly populates the modern open web.
Skipped the comments section but might come back to read it, and a stop at cricketcameo hinted at a quality reader community, sites where the comments are worth reading separately from the post are increasingly rare and signal a particular kind of audience that has grown around the editorial vision over time gradually.