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756 points mtlynch | 2 comments | 23 Jul 20 13:56 UTC | HN request time: 0.491s | source
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znpy ◴[23 Jul 20 15:29 UTC] No.23928368[source]▶
the best thing in this article is the immediate link named "I don’t want your life story; just tell me how to build it "
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mtlynch ◴[23 Jul 20 15:49 UTC] No.23928595[source]▶
Haha, that was inspired by my experience of searching cooking recipes online.
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1. erikig ◴[23 Jul 20 16:55 UTC] No.23929367[source]▶
Which begs the question - which cooking recipes start off with a biography of the author? Now I want to see those!
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2. mtlynch ◴[25 Jul 20 23:44 UTC] No.23953245[source]▶
Oh, they all kind of do that. "Life story" is an exaggeration, but most recipe authors provide a lot of fluff backstory to a recipe before sharing the instructions because Google seems to favor longer content in search results. Here's a not so egregious example on a blog I follow, but it's ~8 paragraphs of fluff before they explain the recipe:

https://www.ketoconnect.net/protein-waffle-recipe/