I've mostly been ignoring analytics recently so I hadn't quite appreciated just how popular https://www.drmaciver.com/2019/05/how-to-do-hard-things/ … had proven. 74,000 hits. 
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Yeah, that makes sense. I'm not sure it works as a theory for the popularity of this blog post though - I think this is more "things that lots of people know but have never previously realised that they don't know how to articulate"
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Yes, “clear concise articulations of things people have already grasped intuitively” seems like a major category of win. (That’s kind of the Lifehacker formula, I think? I’ve never read it.)
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OTOH, my most successful blog posts have all been extremely long boring expositions of super-obscure topics, which I published reluctantly, thinking “well, I’ll lose some followers with this, but I need this explanation as background for other things”
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