Those of you who, like me, write in public a lot: What if, anything, have you done to adapt your style to the more beefy, toxic zeitgeist and discourse of the last few years?
What’s your signal-in-noise strategy? Radiation hardening strategy?
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Sounds reductive but trying to write "chapters" of a book over blog posts with my strategy writing has helped the writing be more coherent (while also helping it reach a smaller audience lol)
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Hoping for "lower quality" because it means goofs like me have a chance
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Those of us who have lived through the Usenet age would disagree with the "toxic zeitgeist" part. The zeitgeist has always been toxic in some way or the other. I've stopped writing because I stopped feeling the need to write.
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I lived through Usenet era too. This is definitely 10x more toxic than normal in the US/west. Perhaps other parts of the world have been less hard hit.
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I’ve seen my writing gradually reduce in quantity because I’m slowly realising that I have very few things to say that would be worth the reader’s time.
Facts are becoming less interesting and genuinely new insights are increasingly harder to come by.
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Niche down, go full naive, paywall, and comments only for subscribers
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1- created to partition off exploration of more radioactive curiosities with closer/trusted friends
2- likelier to not bother replying to replies that seem to miss the spirit of my point (could also be bc of higher volume)
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Sincerity. Be more sincere about *why* I'm writing a particular post.
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