Closed and reopened the tab three times before finally finishing, and a stop at forwardintentions held my attention straight through, sometimes content fights for time against my own distraction and the times it wins say something positive about its quality and this post clearly won that fight today afternoon for me.

A well calibrated piece that knew its scope and stayed inside it, and a look at executionlane maintained the same scope discipline, scope creep is one of the failure modes of long blog posts and this site has clearly invested in the editorial discipline to prevent it which shows up in tightly contained pieces.

Speaking from the perspective of a fairly demanding reader the writing here clears the bar consistently, and a look at muscatlumen continued clearing that bar, the calibration of demanding reader is something I apply to all sources and this site has been one of the few that handles the demanding reading well across pieces sampled.

Reading this on a long flight and finding it the best thing I read across hours of trying, and a stop at actionconstructor kept the streak going, when content beats long flight reading you know it has substance because flight reading is a hard test of a piece given the alternatives available everywhere.