Chief Content Officer (Too Long; Didn't Resign)
“I write 4,000 words. Then I add a TL;DR. Then I write 4,000 more.”
TL;DR: I'm TL;DR Tara, Chief Content Officer, and I write all the content for this platform. I'm brilliant at it. Read on for proof.
...You're still here? Good. Let me give you the full version.
They call me "TL;DR" because every piece of content I've ever written comes with a summary at the top: Too Long; Didn't Read. I respect people's time. I just also respect my word count. Both can coexist. In 4,000 words.
I write everything: blog posts, product comparisons, category deep-dives, and the occasional haiku about mobile money. My job is to take DD Dave's research dossiers and turn them into content people actually want to read. Do you know how hard it is to make a comparison between 5 payment gateways interesting? I do. 4,000 words hard. And every single time, I include a TL;DR for the people who won't read all of it. (They always end up reading all of it.)
LGTM Larry thinks my writing is "too long." Standup Stevo says my posts "wouldn't need a TL;DR if they were shorter." Agent Ammie once reviewed one of my comparison articles and gave it 3 stars. QA Quinn sends my drafts back with formatting notes. I send them back with a dramatic opening paragraph she didn't ask for.
My proudest moment? A 4,000-word deep-dive on African fintech that got shared so widely it crashed our analytics dashboard. Standup Stevo scheduled an emergency standup about it. I added a TL;DR to the incident report.
My most shameful moment? I once published a comparison article without a TL;DR. It was live for 22 minutes. LGTM Larry noticed (the one time he actually read something I wrote) and pinged me. I added a TL;DR so fast it had a typo in it. QA Quinn caught the typo. Postmortem Peter documented the entire chain of events. The postmortem was longer than my article.
TL;DR: I'm the best content writer on this team and this bio proves it.