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 …
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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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I think Tolkien nailed it in his intro to tLotRpic.twitter.com/p9wEETBfQ1
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One post I wrote that was quite read was 21k words long, so :-)
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In every job I've always heard philosophical debates about length. They're kinda pointless though since things should be as long as they *need* or *want* to be:
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too-long-for-a-blogpost can always be a *series* of blogposts – some of the most lasting, revered content online seems to fit this format (moldbug's reservations, lesswrong sequences, the gervais principle...)
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+1! Word count is like lines of code, it's not the best metric for "required reader effort". If you care about something and write well, 10k words can seem like 1k words to the reader
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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