I think I would endorse the truth of multiple of these arguments at various points in my career. My ambient impression is that folks think blogging is "so saturated right now" and: a) blogging is a terrible form factor for impact and value b) virtually no one writes enough well.https://twitter.com/david_perell/status/1227612675334660099 …
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Replying to @patio11
I enjoy your writing style, but sometimes (and indeed in this case), I find myself reading a tweet stream four or five times, trying to figure out whether you're arguing for or against
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Pro-writing, anti-blogging, virtually everyone I've ever interacted with professionally should have a website they own with three essays on it.
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Does this effectively just mean “don’t make your blog look like a blog”?
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That's one takeaway, but there are a lot of other ones. e.g. Five essays over 15 years drive much more than 50% of the value of my blog to me, which suggests a counterfactual time allocation.
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But could you have known which 5 those were without writing 50 others?
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Unclear, but I think the relevant question is "Can other people know this in advance, given their ability to freeride on my experience?" ;) Some of the experience is in this thread. Write on your beat rather than others', essays that will withstand time versus "blogging", etc.
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