“Most often, the urge to add an explanation comes from a basic social impulse to ease experiences by talking.”
It would be weird for me to use a lot of words to explain why you should read this article about how to use fewer words. So I’ll keep this brief.
Torrey Podmajersky writes the words you see in Microsoft products and explains in this post why you should use fewer words and how to do so.
If you like it, you also might dig my post about how to improve your writing forever.