Talk Less. Say More.

Sometimes you just need to talk less.  Or write less. Do that, and you can communicate far more than you thought possible. Why?  Short attention spans. It's been said that as recently as the mid 80s, the average attention span was 20 minutes. Today it's less than 20 seconds (actually, around 8 seconds)... And perhaps it's our 140 character mediums and sound bite politics that are on 24/7, or perhaps it's just that we're so busy that sparing 20 minutes today is something that just can't be done as easily as it could 20 or 30 years ago. But we've certainly lost something, for all the technological prowess we've gained. C'est la vie. I am not here to tell you how to fix the problem (hint: it probably involves less screen time, and more book-time and nature-time and actual face-to-face-with-other-humans time). No, instead, I've already wasted my 20 seconds telling you why you're here in the first place.

1. But I did it in short, staccato sentences.
2. And I peppered it with facts.  1 of them rather surprising.
3. And I used numbers, which the brain interprets differently from text.
4. And I summarized with bullet points.

And, in a nutshell, do those things, and your posts will go farther.