Nick Szabo  🔑

@NickSzabo4 One senses, however, that you yourself have read an awful lot of them.

@colbycosh Back before the Internet conquered my mind.

@NickSzabo4 In the mail-book regime, we can't have dialog. That said, would you ever write a book?

@yang140 tl;dw

@NickSzabo4 Quickly assessing writing is a trainable skill. Consider how planning to read it feels, make a prediction, and iterate.

@Alrenous Is it verbally trainable, could you write a how-to document?

@NickSzabo4 I'm not 100% sure what you mean by 'verbally' trainable. I can so write, but it almost fits in a tweet.

@NickSzabo4 Length correlates with quality: it’s generally difficult to write at length about something without having read about it deeply.

@NickSzabo4 Books often have fluff, but it’s easy to skim that. Quality/word isn’t necessarily the most important thing, just quality/time.

@NickSzabo4 That said, it will be an interesting era when we figure out how to impartially rank and distribute content by thoughtfulness.

@NickSzabo4 Another thought: text is usually *not* about pure info transfer, it’s persuasion. Even textbooks use rhetoric if they’re good.