Personal Workflow Blog

Everyone is unanimous that database normalization is considered a Good Thing.

But it usually comes with a cost : writing queries can be very tedious since you always have to join many tables together to be able to retrieve useful human data from all those reference tables.

The good

• With SMS, IM and now Twitter becoming more and more predominant : ideas might be given as bullet points
• A presentation is much more dense in meaning than a big blob of text, Less time is required to read the post and be inspired by the content
• Blogging is much less time consuming. As Jeff Artwood said Quantity Always Trumps Quality, it is the commitment that is important (hence the schedule).
• You might divide a long article in several short and related posts.

The bad

• Blog articles are usually a medium-depth analysis of a problem whereas presentation are usually a written support of a more detailed oral presentation.
• Presentation sentences are usually hard to understand since they are just headlines without the underlying context.
• You can always do a fast-reading version by putting the important sentences in bold for all those hasty readers.

The ugly

• Longer don't always mean more interesting. Voltaire said Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time. and Antoine de Saint-Exupery completed Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away..

Conclusion

As concluded by Pascal, I made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter, a good and terse article is therefore much more difficult to achieve. Therefore Presentation Style Blogging may be a false good idea.