Rule of Three pattern
Sentence StructureOveruse of the rule-of-three pattern, often extended to four or five. A single tricolon is elegant; three back-to-back tricolons (tri-tricolons) are a pattern recognition failure.
Examples
“Products impress people; platforms empower them. Products solve problems; platforms create worlds. Products scale linearly; platforms scale exponentially.”
“These are design flaws, not syntax errors. They compile. They might even work. But they're code smells.”
“Measure ticket throughput and you get ... Measure velocity and you get ... Measure code coverage and you get ...”
“The fragment, the pause, the reveal”
“no gears, no belts and no bearings”
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