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It's under 450 words which, for an average native English speaker, will take about a minute and a half to read without skimming to find the important bits. It's rather disappointing if something so short needs to be summarized.


His summary is under 25 words; you can read a lot more such summaries in 1½ minutes.

This is why Google SERPs return a snippet and not the whole page of text for every page. Summarising is a very useful thing. What is it about saving time that disappoints you?


TLDR... can you summarize?


TL;DR

His summary is short.

Brevity is useful.




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