Is it possible to be a good blogger if you don't have some kind of a chip on your shoulder?
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I think it’s possible, but you’d need a different source of motivation
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I don’t know what motivates people besides pettiness and resentment
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I think this is basically wrong. If you know what motivates you, you will generally find other media to express yourself, not blogging. Like Twitter. Blogging tends to clarify very illegible motives into less illegible ones.
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By "blogging" I mean specifically something like the meaningness project, your "gonzo density", manifesto-building etc.
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Yeah, chip-on-shoulder is not very workable for that. It can power things like standup, music, entrepreneurship, polemic, journalism, etc. Taleb is a rare longform resentment/spite guy.
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Entrepreneurship/polemic/journalism is roughly the exact combo I'm going for. Good disentanglement.
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We instinctively recognize the "push button" pattern in trolling for eg... you need a relatively immediate response to feed yourself. Like eating a cookie rather than finishing a race.
Difference between picking gang fights cuz anger & picking them for advertising. I realize I conflate the two often :/
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I want both anger as internal motivation *and* fighting top prison dude, but extremely hard to separate.
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