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Wow. He cites himself 9 times and cites himself citing himself at the end.
by xiaoma 10y ago
Wow. He cites himself 9 times and cites himself citing himself at the end.
- burkaman 10y agoWell, it's his blog. It's pretty normal to link to previous blog posts you've written about a particular topic.
- LordHumungous 10y agoGotta get that SEO juice baby
- K0SM0S 10y agoIt may sound egotistic, but it's also a solid way to build something akin to a 'book' albeit in a discrete blogged form: you tend to quote yourself not to make the same point over and over again in so many different phrasings. It makes the arguments consistent, and rewards thoroughness, paying attention to each post (coherency, wording, etc.) Eventually it builds up a coherent, cohesive corpus of ideas that hopefully, should the theme be well-defined, is a book. Usually when going for publication, you'd replace these quotes with references to previous chapters, typically in footnotes.