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The New Yorker is an unfair bar, though. Most founders stand to gain a lot from just writing, and many of them don't because they're (often) engineers, not writ
by gk1 9y ago
The New Yorker is an unfair bar, though. Most founders stand to gain a lot from just writing, and many of them don't because they're (often) engineers, not writers.
Edit: The parent comment originally said something along the lines of "...there's a reason you don't see anyone from Baremetrics in The New Yorker."
Edit: Now the New Yorker comment is back.
- fluxic 9y agoEven if you're a New Yorker-calibre writer, you won't be able to write anything of "quality" in less than an hour. Now imagine if you're not a New Yorker-calibre writer! (I'm a pretty snobby reader and still like the occasional techie-founder post. You don't have to be a copywriting wizard to write something substantive, but it isn't enough to just commit text to the page. You can tell when someone has thought deeply and laboured over a piece of writing. The idea that you can write something worthy of other people's time in one hour is cut-and-dry clickbait.)
- ozim 9y agoIf someone has some insight and just writes about it and I get some value from it, like it is neat idea that is quality for me. Long post with a lot of research in area that turns out is not interesting for me does not have quality for me. Maybe quality would be that person writes first paragraph in a way that makes it clear it is not interesting for me.