Direct response people have an answer: anyone who reads that far is *really* interested. My extremely long articles get relatively few readers, but a higher percentage of them end up emailing and suggesting a meeting. https://twitter.com/Birdyword/status/1136722376123715585 …
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Replying to @ByrneHobart
Few people run the world, but most people who do run the world eat 10k words for breakfast, so it's possible that long-form journalists have cursed themselves with the ability to influence people with power and authority at the expense of their ability to sell advertising.
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That’s what I’m hoping! “Who could possibly want to read that?” sounds like a rhetorical question, but if there’s an answer it’s someone I’d get along with, so...
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tangentially related: people say "I tried to read Moldbug and found it too long and boring", and I want to respond "you really shouldn't admit that"
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