I wonder how much of the sharp dip in my interest in actually executing my blog post ideas (which are about as good/bad as they've always been) is due to a "do I really want the aggravation of whatever toxicity this will attract? I've been thinking of it as a sulk/funk/block
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The bigger problem is that any audience gatekeeping mechanism that keeps out exhausting, taxing jerks will also keep out new interesting people and opportunities as well as people who genuinely need/benefit from stuff being public.
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Writing in public has been a part of my identity for so long though (first paid for a piece of writing in like 1988 for a high school essay contest, so 30y ago) that the idea of giving it up or boxing in/limiting that side of my life feels very strange and ghostly.
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feels like a Dunbar Number limit. The tools/systems/norms extended families use to tolerate/rein-in unruly members fail to scale beyond 150.
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Am surprised that your style and scope of writing (not exactly aimed at a mass market nor is it crudely provocative) would attract 2% jerks
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