Does anyone actually read “atomic essays”? Ship30 etc? Ever found a useful insight in one? It might be a useful process for the people doing it, but my timeline is full of them and for me they add zero value.
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Certainly haven't read any stuffing the timeline. The idea of writing atomic essays to clarify your own ideas obviously valuable, but twitter is the wrong medium for it.
Folks should quietly publish them to a blog/garden that others can voluntarily browse. Less invasive.
Premise:I am a stowaway building a habit and I prefer threads over atomic essays
Despite everything I said above,if I change the word atomic-essay,everything you said applies to any tweets.Arguably I am creating more noise when I try to turn my essays in threads (multiple units)
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Interesting perspective.
Is your issue with how the content is organized? Because if one were to organize the content into a thread instead of an atomic essay, the end result is the same thing.
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1/ Threading the content instead of posting an (a11y inaccessible) screenshot of an essay would at least make it native web-searchable text.
But it wouldn't solve the original frustration; the current cultural conventions around "atomic essays" are that they help the writer...
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Interestingly, the very first thing they teach at #ship30for30 is: DO NOT start a blog, and they are pretty stubborn about it. 😅
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I can appreciate that perspective. Getting a blog up is a faff, and people will faff forever over their tools/theme/logo/domain name. Then never write anything.
There are ways to get over that roadblock without being anti-blogging though. So many ways:
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