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Searching for the numinous. Co-purveyor of https://quantum.country/ 

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    1. Nadia‏ @nayafia Jan 15
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      Nadia Retweeted Zack Kanter

      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 …

      Nadia added,

      Zack KanterVerified account @zackkanter
      So I sat down to write a letter to someone, ended up writing a 23 page essay about the history of Amazon & Walmart, how Amazon isn’t a company - it’s a runaway algorithm - and where it is vulnerable. It’s too long for an article & too short for a book. What should I do with it?
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      18 replies 1 retweet 56 likes
    2. michael_nielsen‏ @michael_nielsen Jan 15
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      Replying to @nayafia

      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).

      10 replies 5 retweets 87 likes
    3. Nadia‏ @nayafia Jan 15
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      Replying to @michael_nielsen

      @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...)

      2 replies 0 retweets 5 likes
    4. michael_nielsen‏ @michael_nielsen Jan 15
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      Replying to @nayafia @backus

      I'll bet they would, if you really really cared about something that needed to be said at 10k words.

      3 replies 0 retweets 5 likes
    5. Untitled Sone Game (aka Sonal Chokshi)‏ @smc90 Jan 15
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      Replying to @michael_nielsen @nayafia @backus

      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:

      3 replies 0 retweets 4 likes
    6. Visakan Veerasamy‏ @visakanv Jan 15
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      Replying to @smc90 @michael_nielsen and

      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...)

      1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
    7. Untitled Sone Game (aka Sonal Chokshi)‏ @smc90 Jan 15
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      Replying to @visakanv @michael_nielsen and

      Untitled Sone Game (aka Sonal Chokshi) Retweeted Untitled Sone Game (aka Sonal Chokshi)

      those are all cult of personality blogs/authors though:)https://twitter.com/smc90/status/1085429827820150786 …

      Untitled Sone Game (aka Sonal Chokshi) added,

      Untitled Sone Game (aka Sonal Chokshi) @smc90
      Replying to @smc90 @michael_nielsen and 2 others
      for former (need), can be long IF info dense (ROI of insights per inch); for latter (want), it can be as long as engaged readers care to follow along (usually fans of a particular author/ cult of personality type followers; the work or author usually represents movement or //POV)
      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
    8. Visakan Veerasamy‏ @visakanv Jan 15
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      Replying to @smc90 @michael_nielsen and

      causality might run the other way; if you make that sort of content, and make it well, the people who end up reading it also end up being much more invested in you personally than if you just wrote a short piece here and there

      3 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
      michael_nielsen‏ @michael_nielsen Jan 15
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      Replying to @visakanv @smc90 and

      It's hard to distinguish "cult of personality" from "personal brand" sometimes.

      10:57 PM - 15 Jan 2019
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        2. Visakan Veerasamy‏ @visakanv Jan 15
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          Replying to @michael_nielsen @smc90 and

          if you wrote 50,000 really good words, and I read it and was like "holy shit, michael neilsen wrote the best 50,000 words i've read in the past 10 years", and I go around trying to persuade people to read it, people might say "wow that neilsen guy is kinda cultish huh"

          1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
        3. Visakan Veerasamy‏ @visakanv Jan 15
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          Replying to @visakanv @michael_nielsen and

          *nielsen sorry!!

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        2. Untitled Sone Game (aka Sonal Chokshi)‏ @smc90 Jan 15
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          Replying to @michael_nielsen @visakanv and

          former is *pull*, latter is *push*

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        3. Untitled Sone Game (aka Sonal Chokshi)‏ @smc90 Jan 15
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          Replying to @smc90 @michael_nielsen and

          [I've done this a long time and across 4 very different places/audiences and huge range of authors, famous to newbie. So lots of data points and variety for the pattern reco. Problem is most people make these decisions using n=1 logic ("my friend did" or "I did" vs seeing 1000s)]

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