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    Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 17 Jul 2020

    Counterintuitive as it sounds, I'm always encouraged when I publish a new essay and get showered with insults. Showered = lots of people saw it, and insults = there were no big mistakes in it for them to refute.

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      1. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 17 Jul 2020

        The really scary thing to receive after publishing a new essay is the polite email whose subject line includes e.g. "statistical error."

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      2. Terry Xu‏ @coolnalu 17 Jul 2020

        I do. But, I don’t think I got PMF yet.

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      1. Raoul Davis, CEO Branding Expert  🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥‏ @Ceo_Branding 17 Jul 2020
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        Attention is good when you're a writer

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      1. NathanpmYoung.substack.com‏ @NathanpmYoung 17 Jul 2020
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        How could you make your essay's easier to error correct? I can't wait for the next set of blogging platforms with suggesting built in.

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      1. MrWarrenJohnson‏ @warren2650 17 Jul 2020
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        A new one?? I'm still rereading the bayesian statistics essays.

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      1. Dr. Joseph Santoro‏ @Joseph_Santoro 17 Jul 2020
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        You know you're done something right when some people hate you for it.

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      1. Smart Sync Services‏ @SmartSyncServ 17 Jul 2020
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        What's your per post avg research time and avg time devoted for writing and editing? It must vary from post to post.. just curious to know.

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      1. Mark Lockett‏ @MarkLockettAu 17 Jul 2020
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        Similarly, one of the reasons I am positive about Bitcoin is the amount of hysterical attacks it gets from nay-sayers,

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      2. Sean Sullivan‏ @nyseans 17 Jul 2020
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        I write a weekly newsletter and have never received an insult. Now I feel like a failure.

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      3. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 17 Jul 2020
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        You wouldn't get them so much with a newsletter because everyone has signed up to receive those. The people who freak out about essays tend to be those who follow people who follow you, but don't follow you.

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