"Pollute everybody's attention as much as you can, since occasionally you might say something useful" It's the ego-centered approach to publishing, maximizing

"Pollute everybody's attention as much as you can, since occasionally you might say something useful" It's the ego-centered approach to publishing, maximizing your returns, at a large cost to the commons. (If everybody follows that advice, the Internet will be a smouldering garbage heap. Wait, they do, and it is) I'd much rather all of us focused on publishing something that has an actual chance of being useful. Be picky. Respect other people's time and attention. And as a reader, choose authors that have proven to respect your time. (Or, alternatively, have others pre-filter the garbage stream for the jewels)