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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.

東京都 Tokyo
kalzumeus.com
Joined February 2009

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    1. Noah Putnam‏ @noah_putnam Mar 5
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      Noah Putnam Retweeted Patrick McKenzie

      This is a good take from @patio11 but interestingly I think his site (http://kalzumeus.com ) still brands itself like a "blog" As for sites that avoid this, I think http://gwern.net  and http://patrickcollison.com  are very interesting Some thoughts below 👇https://twitter.com/patio11/status/1227624292273147904 …

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      Patrick McKenzie @patio11
      Blogging autocommoditizes itself via the branding of the form factor suggesting "hobbyist in their bathrobe." Blogging makes the date of publication (and sequence of posts) central to perceived value of the piece, causing it to depreciate to ~0 for *no darn reason* within days.
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    2. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 Mar 5
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      It does? I should fix that.

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    3. 𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫‏ @gwern Mar 5
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      Replying to @patio11 @noah_putnam

      It does, look at your front page. It should basically be https://www.kalzumeus.com/greatest-hits/  but instead it's *this*: https://www.kalzumeus.com/  Ah yes, "Tether: The Story So far", that's definitely what one thinks of as patio11's best thing to read...?

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    4. 𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫‏ @gwern Mar 5
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      Replying to @gwern @patio11 @noah_putnam

      A good front page for you, IMO, would be a narrative form of 'greatest hits' combined with 'thirty second self-intro', explaining your systems engineering paradigm which underlies all of your optimization work and achievements, and provoking interest. (Not stuff about dragons.)

      2 replies 0 retweets 22 likes
    5. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 Mar 5
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      Replying to @gwern @noah_putnam

      Cobbler's children have no shoes. Thanks! I'll take a whack at it today.

      1 reply 0 retweets 12 likes
    6. 𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫‏ @gwern Mar 5
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      Replying to @patio11 @noah_putnam

      Pretty much. "Man, if patio11 looked at this dude's homepage, he would be *appalled*." (I assume it just sort of built up over time while you were doing everything else...)

      2 replies 0 retweets 7 likes
    7. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 Mar 5
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      Replying to @gwern @noah_putnam

      There's literally a comment from when I made it saying "Temporary now that I'm not having the blog-in-reverse-order be the homepage. FIXME" I think that was... 2014? Scared of checking git.

      1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
    8. 𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫‏ @gwern Mar 6
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      Replying to @patio11 @noah_putnam

      Much better. Could be more concrete - eg the BCC part could link pages on how you optimized it with A/B testing, content marketing, software logging... Maybe a bit bland. eg 'due to career advice for engineers' could be even better as 'telling programmers to ask for more money'.

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      Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 Mar 6
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      Replying to @gwern @noah_putnam

      Appreciate the suggestions and will likely take you up on them this weekend.

      11:24 AM - 6 Mar 2020
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