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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 12
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      Patrick McKenzie Retweeted Austin Petersmith

      Someday I will understand why it takes me an hour to write 5k words on a message board, a day to write 5k words in an essay, and a week to write 5k words worth of emails, but today is not that day.https://twitter.com/awwstn/status/1238228349824073728 …

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      Austin Petersmith @awwstn
      This AMA with @patio11 did not disappoint! * 36 out of 45 questions got an answer * Total of *5,000 words* written by @patio11 * 4,614 unique visitors * Avg time on page of 3:37. so, 278 human hours were spent reading @patio11's great answers https://capiche.com/ama/patrick-mckenzie-stripe … https://twitter.com/patio11/status/1237522348401520640 … pic.twitter.com/aZ0hkQvbKQ
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      Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 Mar 12
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      It’s *not* just a quality level or research thing. I have a couple of essays which were originally going to be message board comments, and they include two of my best ever.

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        1. nerdposting‏ @nerdposting Mar 12
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          To what extent do you revise each type of writing? I can imagine myself typing out 5k words of essay first-drafts or of unedited messages to friends in a day if I spent a large amount of time at the computer, but the essay would take much longer to publish bc I want to revise it.

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        1. Peter "Stay Home or Wear a Mask!" Armstrong‏ @peterarmstrong Mar 12
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          It's that when things don't start as Serious Business then you can go faster and just jump in w/o a bunch of planning. Then you start writing, and ideas flow out naturally, etc. The lower the barrier to writing & publishing the better. (Obviously, I'm biased here.)

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        1. Phil Mohun‏ @philmohun Mar 12
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          If one of those essays is a response to the Product Manager interview question then I can confirm it will be a smash. The first question I would answer: what does a Product Manager *do* all day?

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        1. Daniel Molling‏ @ShreddedMoney Mar 12
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          Same for me with group chats with my friends when I get going on a serious topic. For me I think it's something to do with being comfortable and not really worrying at all about who else is reading. I'm writing directly *to* someone or a small group and that just makes it flow

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