I hear a lot of scorn for the rationalist style where you caveat every sentence with "I think" or the like. I want to defend that style. 

There is real semantic content to me saying "I think" in a sentence. I don't say it when I'm stating established fact. I only use it when I'm saying something which is fundamentally speculative. But most of my sentences are fundamentally speculative.

It feels like people were complaining that I use the future tense a lot. Like, sure, my text uses the future tense more than average, and future tense is indeed somewhat more awkward. But future tense is the established way to talk about the future, which is what I wanted to talk about. It seems pretty weird to switch to present tense just because people don't like future tense.