It's easy to shortcut when you get busy explaining the why's of the world, but it's very important to try.
Keith RaboisThe first thing that editor does is they take out a red pen, or nowadays you go online, and they start striking things. Basically eliminating things, the biggest task of an editor is to simplify, simplify, simplify and that usually means omitting things.
Keith RaboisMost people would agree that the details matter when it faces the user. But where the real debate is on things that don't face the user.
Keith Rabois