Tucker Lieberman
1 min readOct 28, 2024

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Same. I had a serious "undergraduate paper style" going on until my late 30s. I noticed the internet shifting toward an entirely different style — e.g., no full bibliography at the bottom, just hyperlink and be done — but for a couple decades, I resisted changing with it. I believed my writing was good according to my own standards, dammit! My undergraduate paper standards 😂

Now I accept that what makes a piece of writing "good" depends not only on the imagined audience I'd like to attract, but on what the medium calls for and what the algorithm will support. A hyperlink is frankly more helpful than a 20th-century-style bibliography, which is why hyperlinks got invented and why we should use them.

Likewise, I used to rely on long blockquotes and write "responses" to them. But unless I'm writing an in-depth book review, that's probably not the way to go.

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Tucker Lieberman
Tucker Lieberman

Written by Tucker Lieberman

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