Every theme I kinda half-ass blogged about in 1-2 posts 8-12 years ago now seems to be the topic of some really well-done and thoughtful newsletter/blog today. So basically my job in the Discourse is theme-squatting/claiming stuff that Better People actually explore 10y later
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I suppose a nice way of putting it is that I make hasty, bad, premature maps of shit
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Alt: my shtick is long-form Mencken-Cunningham's Law hacking. Post the simple and wrong answer today so annoyed people post the subtle and correct answer 10y later
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My "hits" tend to be wrong answers that the Discourse senses nobody will have the right answers to, ever, and to which right answers may not even be possible. So I win the "best wrong answer" game by being early and land-grabbing the explanation turf.
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