If I don’t have at least two parentheticals in a high effort rant to explain even the most trivial nagging exception or nuance then why did I even write the damn thing to start with?

Not only do I, I don’t know how not to! But yeah, it’s fun to write that way…maybe not always as straightforward to read, depending on the audience, but it’s the most natural way for me to express my thoughts.

my longform writing was often more parenthetical aside than main text

Quite often. I’m sure I overshare way more than not, but no one ever says anything. Also, I damn near went off on a tangent in this post without realizing it. It has since been deleted.

I don’t know how we ever managed without footnotes.

I don’t write, but it’s something I notice when reading. Another tell I’ve noticed is characters who communicate too clearly and reasonably with each other.

Always. I love it, but it tends to land me in trouble when academic writing. It so easily turns into a million different side quests and new ideas that I won’t remember the next day, but boy do I learn a lot.

My writing always goes from too long and expansive to less when most people I know struggle with getting enough writing done. My bachelors thesis was twice the recommended lenght when I started to scrap stuff from it.

nesting parenthesis inside parenthesis

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David Foster Wallace

When Trump said that Oakland was “like living in hell” in 2020, I researched and wrote a scathing rebuke and defense of my beautiful city in a super angry email to friends and family. Buddy suggested removing the vulgarities (I was super angry) and submitting it to a local paper. I have my dopey op-ed framed above my desk and sent copies of the paper to each of the people who I’d emailed to begin with. Very proud of my tiny achievement.