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Patrick McKenzie

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I work for the Internet, at @stripe, mostly on accelerating startups. Opinions here are my own.

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    1. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 Mar 1
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      A disturbing large percentage of citations of some of my best work say "Written in 2012 but still relevant", which a) is a direct artifact of the blogging form factor, b) is an unforced error, and c) I should just fix forever when I achieve activation energy.

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    2. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 Mar 1
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      "But how will I know if the world has changed and one should now not charge more and/or not negotiate salary and/or assume everyone has exactly two names and/or get rolled by credit reporting agencies after talking to them on the phone", go people who will not read to end anyway.

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    3. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 Mar 1
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      As a public service to other people who write for a living, here are five representative examples. I've removed identifying information because this is not about shaming people who share a common heuristic about valuing professional output, it is about adapting to that:

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      pic.twitter.com/775hANJtHT

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    5. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 Mar 1
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      And #5.pic.twitter.com/BuK4tvGesj

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    6. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 Mar 1
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      Notice: The social purpose of mentioning the age is *to apologize to one's own audience* that you are telling them Old News. These users are explicitly not not trusting the article, they model people dear to them as not trusting the article solely based on the age.

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    7. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 Mar 1
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      Also notice: These folks often state that they are *surprised* that something as old as ten years old (with exclamation points!) could still be relevant.

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    8. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 Mar 1
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      I only had to go back 2 weeks to dig up these examples. How many more thousands of people said it! How many more tens of thousands merely thought it, and either read the advice but didn't share, read the advice but didn't apply to their lives, or stopped reading at date!

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    9. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 Mar 1
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      Don't date your work!

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    10. Dylan Smith‏ @dylanatsmith Mar 1
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      Do you mean “don’t put a date on your work” or “create work that doesn’t age”? If the latter, do you have practical advice? Feels like it would preclude people from writing timely pieces.

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      Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 Mar 1
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      I mean both of those things, for most writers. Most people shouldn't write pieces which depreciate. Timeliness is overrated if your publication doesn't structurally *have* to publish on a defined cadence. The NYT can throw out great writing daily. Most writers shouldn't.

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          100% agree that investing your time in work that rapidly depreciates is probably bad. But omitting a date is simply doing readers a disservice.

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          The hard part, though, is writing something that is truly timeless. Not many people "pay homage only to eternal laws".

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