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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I've been tempted by the idea of writing only inside walled gardens, with vetted readership, and in practice have been doing that to some extent (email, slack, 1:1s...), but there is no way to gate keep at scale. If you attract > ~100 readers, at least 1-2 will be taxing jerks
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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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Charge a small amount of money for access to new posts. Post them publicly with comments disabled a month later
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Also could just grandfather in the readers you are fine with for free
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sounds like you’re already trying to resurrect the dead. I’ll stick to the Ouija approach of just consulting your 2009 posts for insights today
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