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It turns out that it’s impossible to reasonably title any talk or article without it being considered a blanket statement. This is why you attach the talk or article to the hyperlink so people can continue understanding more of what you are saying.

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Well, this is just clickbait. Choose boring technology means sth pretty concrete for someone without context. It’s not that you can’t reasonably title it. It’s that you can’t reasonably title it to generate views.

I understand the sentiment, but then one should expect criticism of the schism between title and content.

It should probably be “Default to boring tech”

"Clickbait" has been apparently watered down to the point of meaninglessness then. You title things to get people to want to read them if you're sharing information you think is important. The term "clickbait" is typically used to refer to false and misleading titles to generate ad revenue for garbage content.

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