Eugene Yan's essay "Seemingly Paradoxical Rules of Writing" opens with a contradiction: with regard to writing, there are many rules and also no rules at all. The piece does not try to resolve that tension. Instead, it treats the coexistence of strict guidance and total freedom as the actual condition of writing.
Yan offers no checklist or formula. The central claim is that writing advice is paradoxical by nature: what works in one context fails in another, and rules can be followed while also being broken. The title signals this directly, and the content appears to embrace rather than eliminate the paradox.
Readers looking for AI/ML content should note that this source is not about machine learning. Its relevance to this section is indirect: many AI/ML practitioners write papers, blog posts, and documentation, and Yan's point is that no single set of writing rules will reliably serve all of those contexts.