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On anticipating the reader

One bit of feedback the publisher gave us: It will be important to anticipate readers’ objections and head them off.”
So we’ve been building in an I object” voice to a lot of the text by directly addressing counterarguments that we hear frequently. Of course, we then go and refute those views. But anticipating potential objections is a nice way to show readers you get it.

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