Given that the author is presumably a writer, please, please, please! For love of all that is holy, when you're using an acronym, please write it out in full, followed by the acronym in brackets, the first time you use it!
I've rewritten the first sentence of this article to help:
> Master of Fine Arts (MFA) essays: there are so many of them.
I spent far too long figuring that MFA in this article stood for "Master of Fine Arts" and not "Multi Factor Authentication".
No doubt it was written for an audience that knows intimately what an MFA stipend is, but it's not accessible at all to people outside that bubble.
It's really kind of hilarious because her intro has lots of material that could refer just as well to discussions about the online security meaning, like:
My subject today focuses rather on the absurdly heated discourse that invariably spins up online in reaction to the topic, a predictable cycle of outrage over the same series of arguments even as we lament, with excruciating self-awareness: oh my god we’re doing it again.
A DDG search for 'MFA good or bad' returns about 75% hits on the online security issue, and the rest are on academic degrees for writers. About equally contentious it seems.
Thank you for this, I too had to do multiuple searches before getting to the definition of MFA. Meeting an unknown acronym can be frustrating if it's not easy to find what it stands for.
I've rewritten the first sentence of this article to help:
> Master of Fine Arts (MFA) essays: there are so many of them.
I spent far too long figuring that MFA in this article stood for "Master of Fine Arts" and not "Multi Factor Authentication".
No doubt it was written for an audience that knows intimately what an MFA stipend is, but it's not accessible at all to people outside that bubble.
I'll note the author does follow this style in her footnote when defining MECE, so that's a good start: https://joukovsky.substack.com/p/not-another-mfa-essay?s=r#f...