In yesterday’s Harvard Business Review, David Silverman wrote a terrific blog on how College Essays are Ruining our Economy. His point? We are inundated by content. Too many people write too many words in too many long-winded documents, reports, blogs and briefs.
Shakespeare’s character Polonius advised the same thing over four hundred years ago: “Brevity is the soul of wit.”
What are the implications for social media? Are Facebook, tweets and text the poetry of our age? As Hamlet famously asked: 2b?Nt2b? = ?