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    Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 21 Feb 2020

    How to Write Usefully: http://paulgraham.com/useful.html 

    1:05 AM - 21 Feb 2020
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      1. Anita Cryptberg‏ @ACryptberg 21 Feb 2020
        Replying to @paulg

        Almost Friday noon, perfect timing for top of my read-it-later list 😎👌

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      2. Carson Poole‏ @CarsonPoole 21 Feb 2020
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        The part “If you write a bad sentence, you don’t publish it” is very contrary to a lot of the advice I’ve heard about content creation, largely summed up here https://alcalde.texasexes.org/2012/08/quantity-over-quality-why-you-shouldnt-pay-workers-to-be-creative/ …. Would definitely need to keep the pursuit for perfection in rational check.

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      3. Carson Poole‏ @CarsonPoole 21 Feb 2020
        Replying to @CarsonPoole @paulg

        The context I heard the advice in was a content creator deciding how much to put out every day. After a lot of debate he chose three videos per for this reason. Almost every day one video gets a few million views and another gets a 10-50k. People forget about the low performers.

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      1. Marcos Pereira‏ @voxelbased 21 Feb 2020
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        What do you think of this way of reading your essays? https://gist.github.com/marcospgp/2d1eec502548e8a8f0a42e0999f3bdae … Would you consider writing them in this format if there was a platform for it?

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      1. Thiago Guerrera‏ @Thiagogm 21 Feb 2020
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        It is inspiring to see how you apply deliberate practice for writing better.

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      1. Ashish Bhatia‏ @ashishbhatia 21 Feb 2020
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        That's exactly why I still have 100+ drafts pending on http://ashishb.net . I wrote those, felt they weren't that useful and never published.

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      1. Anuraj R.‏ @anurajenp 21 Feb 2020
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        Anuraj R. Retweeted Anuraj R.

        https://twitter.com/_anurajrp/status/1174227538752823296?s=20 …

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        Anuraj R. @anurajenp
        Replying to @mmay3r
        Writing crystallizes ideas in ways thinking on its own will never accomplish. - @morganhousel
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      2. (T)‏ @testererr 21 Feb 2020
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        Re:novelty, often getting novel insight from an essay does not lead to any longterm change. Even true novel non-abstract personal insights patients receive from psychiatrists seldom lead to change. “Modeling” reader “state” and possible “insight integration” paths might help?

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      3. (T)‏ @testererr 21 Feb 2020
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        As a rough analogy in car navigation, best route may be “novelty”, but goal is “change”=driver action. Navigator could do well to model driver’s previous “state” to decide how best to lead driver to this “change”, adapting to the driver instead of an “unerring” forced command.

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      1. (T)‏ @testererr 21 Feb 2020
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        Re:misrepresentations, given novelty of insight, it’s trivial “defences” may not be as obvious to reader as to author, here again maybe modeling possible “state” and listing most promising attack vectors and defence might help move reader along the “change” path. Useful=changing?

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