The idea is that it shapes your thoughts. You're drawn to things that are easier to express. It's not that you can't express any arbitrary concept, but if you happen to have a concise word for something then you're more likely to use that than to try to ramble through something that takes a paragraph of explanation.
I think clarity is more important than conciseness. Furthermore, sometimes when explainng a complex topic I find myself being deliberately too verbose. I try to provide more context, like giving examples, anecdotes, explaing the same concept from different points of view, exploring contradicting ideas, etc.
There's also an important nuance here: clarity. Many times re-reading something I've written, I realized that I was being concise, but at the expense of clarity, by using jargon without explaining it. One needs to be careful not to be too concise, or they risk going over the reader's head.
It's been said that the enforced brevity is somehow liberating. You can't be eloquent in 140 characters, so you don't need to stress so much about trying to be. Same can be said for texting.
Were it 90% of tutorials or blog posts nowadays and it would take 5 or 10x as much space to say the same thing, detours and forced jokes and analogies included, in the process making it less understandable.
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