Found at “Stephen’s Web ~ How to Write Articles and Essays Quickly and Expertly ~ Stephen Downes” on 2022-03-02 12:19:23.

Begin by writing - in your head, at least - your second paragraph (that would be the one you just read, above). Your second paragraph will tell people what your essay says. Some people write abstracts or executive summaries in order to accomplish this task. But you don’t need to do this. You are stating your entire essay or article in one paragraph. If you were writing a news article, you would call this paragraph the ’lede’. A person could read just the one paragraph and know what you had to say.