About Killing the Darlings... Kill the 1st and last paragraph!

I really like James Altucher's style. Raw, excruciatingly honest, exposed…he lays it all bear with nothing left to hide. He cuts through the noise with the most down to earth commentary you ever read…without being obscene. Intelligent gutter talk. Authentic — no kidding.

The issue for me is killing the outer 10 paragraphs and leaving the middle one. That should work.
My thing is 3 mugs of British tea (to his 3 lattes).
That “IMHO” hurts…ouch…guilty.