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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Replying to @Meaningness
It's mostly empty calories from life hacker and hacker news, so I'm not sure how pleased to actually be about it. More startling than anything
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Replying to @DRMacIver @Meaningness
it's a genuinely good article detailing something that a lot of folks come across without really knowing or understanding it verbally, and the folks that don't tend to have a lot of trouble!
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Replying to @mattoflambda @Meaningness
Yeah I think this is the root of why it's hard to predict popularity - a post needs to feel almost too obvious to be worth saying to do numbers like this
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Replying to @DRMacIver @mattoflambda
My theory of tweets that go viral is “reflections that (in fact) everyone has already had, but that many people think OTHER people need to realize”
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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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