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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It's not advice I'm especially good at following TBH. It's something that happens more naturally when I don't actually want to write the thing I'm writing and am just doing it because I feel like I should (or am being paid to do it), which is amusingly perverse.
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Well that fits my experience. The most successful posts were ones I wrote thinking “I really don’t want to take the time for this, it’s long and boring, but to write what I *actually* want to write, I need to summarize this field because no one has done so before.”
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ABSOLUTELY. If I want jokes, I can go to TV. If I want whodunnits, I can pick up a book. Stick to what *your* (ie explainer-person) comparative advantage, which is explaining something well. (Not directed at you, David, but at all explainer-people)
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As a followup, this is why I mostly ignore podcasts even though most people seem to love them --- the info-density is way too low bcs so much time spent on crap like intros and outros, music, joke talk, and the rest of the industrial radio idiot complex.
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