Write for a reader who can click away at any second. A reader who is distracted. A reader who is stressed out about work. A reader who has a million things to read and still isn’t sure your article is worth their attention. Because it’s true. That’s your average reader.
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That is absolutely true as well. Otherwise, I wouldn’t write essays like this. +1 to your comment.https://www.perell.com/blog/peter-thiel …
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A lot of the optimizations that people make given the "average reader" view of the world counsel them to be more like BuzzFeed. And there's a place for that. It's called BuzzFeed. Meanwhile, some readers happily chew 10k words up before breakfast then go literally run the world.
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Even when I'm trying to "market myself," the kind of people who don't have time to read a 2000-word post are often explicitly outside my target audience. In fact, losing certain kinds of readers can be a net gain. I believe sales people call this "qualifying."
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@nntaleb does the same with speaking. He's not your flawless eloquent speaker but he weeds out the non-serious listener with that style. Only the genuinely interested stay.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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"When I thought: this whole notion of writing for the person who understands nothing, the average reader ... He has to die! I can't have him in my head. And so the person I started writing for was the homicide detective."- David Simon about The Wire
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Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia. Kurt Vonnegut
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There was a point when I thought I ought to write listicles since it seems they do "best". Luckily, I didn't hang out around that low point in my life for very long.
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