<ul><li>One-pagers are used in software industry to gain alignment quickly and make decisions.</li><li>Assume the audience is 2-3x less informed than you believe to surface basic assumptions.</li><li>Adopt egoless writing approach to celebrate every criticism.</li><li>The author owns the document and has the authority to determine what it says.</li><li>Suggest two alternatives to a course of action to make reviewers explore tradeoffs.</li><li>Find a way to accept nitpicks as long as they do not change the meaning.</li><li>Include graphs beforehand to make the information easily understandable.</li><li>One-pagers should be as short as reasonable, eliminating all tangents beyond the scope.</li><li>Follow a format and answer questions preemptively to make reviewers navigate easily.</li><li>This article provides non-obvious rules for writing a great one-pager.</li></ul>

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