contrariwise: That is not such a terrible outcome, but neither is it an especially good outcome. The quality of my e-mails and public speaking is, in my view,

contrariwise: That is not such a terrible outcome, but neither is it an especially good outcome. The quality of my e-mails and public speaking is, in my view, nowhere near that of my novels. So for me it comes down to the following choice: I can distribute material of bad-to-mediocre quality to a small number of people, or I can distribute material of higher quality to more people. But I can’t do both; the first one obliterates the second. https://www.nealstephenson.com/why-i-am-a-bad-correspondent.html https://www.nealstephenson.com/why-i-am-a-bad-correspondent.... (pardon the utterly horrible formatting)