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This is a strange article. Why did the author feel the need to include the pictures of two random guys that were put on the project and are not even relevant to any of what he writes about?

One of many strange things about it. The other being the story suddenly turns into a tutorial about some maps feature.

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It feels like part diary, part history, part showing off something he built.

We come here expecting an article with a message, some sort of point, a call to action, a moral point, some big issue that needs to be addressed, but instead we just get a sequence of events.

I don't know if it's good or bad, but it does make you think about article structure and how we're driven by expectations.

I was expecting him to say that Igor quashed any possible rebellion by PIPing the malcontents, with Louis providing skip manager cover, thus neatly explaining why My Maps remains so utterly basic. Instead, the article just pivots to some minor feature description.

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