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.
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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:
I think starting a blog is totally fine as long as you don't start with a blog ONLY. I recommend people who don't wanna deal with all techy stuff to go with , you can literally get a blog set up within minutes with your own domain and newsletter built-in.
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Completely agree. Tools like hashnode / insta-website services are fantastic for democraticising blogging and take away 90% of the hassle.
Writing on a website in native hypertext and occasionally tweeting to tell people you’ve written new things / having chats about it 👍👍👍
