Request for product: a place to publish work that's too long for a blog post and too short for a bookhttps://twitter.com/zackkanter/status/1085034960203837441 …
I really like long-form blog posts. I used to worry about publishing them, but I think conventional wisdom is wrong: many of my most read blog posts are 10k+ words (one is ~30k words).
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@backus will prob fight me on this, but I think it depends on your audience! I'm not sure people would read my 10k+ word blog posts. (Then again, I don't think I've written one...) -
I'll bet they would, if you really really cared about something that needed to be said at 10k words.
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+1. if you're looking for long, in-depth articles (no blog posts/essays), I recommend http://longreads.com andhttp://longform.com
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How about things longer than a tweet but too short for a blogpost? Should they just be really short blog posts as well? Man blogs are versatile!
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The most read thing I've ever written, by far, is quite long:https://jakeseliger.com/2012/10/20/why-you-should-become-a-nurse-or-physicians-assistant-instead-of-a-doctor-the-underrated-perils-of-medical-school …
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My most read pages are my longest ones. Haven’t counted words but the hexagon guide has 37 images, and a picture is 1000 words, so it’s at least 37k words, right? ;-)
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The full version of Charlie Munger’s speech The Psychology of Human Misjudgement is about 25k words and is one of the best essyas out there.
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It's about the value of edit buttons
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It’s harder to get a long form post right, but if you do it’s more rewarding for the reader. I saw a blip from Medium staff once that the “optimal” length for traffic is 7 minutes. Believe me I’ve tried it’s hard to cover anything of substance in a 7 minute read.
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Totally agree. My longest post ,"The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Quasirandom Sequences." (5000+ words) is by far my most popular post. http://ow.ly/yQBy30nkBcN
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