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I have an editing regimen for my articles.

After the article is done, I search for occurrences of “you,” and generally replace them with “we,” “ours,” “I,” “me,” “mine,” etc.

It’s not about bragging. It’s about removing the autocratic tone from the article.

In my experience, folks don’t like being dictated to.




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