Hello from the world of mathematics. We already have ArXiV[0]. Think of it as a blogging platform. Any result worth sharing ends up on ArXiV way before it gets

Hello from the world of mathematics. We already have ArXiV[0]. Think of it as a blogging platform. Any result worth sharing ends up on ArXiV way before it gets published, and anyone who cares about it will get notified. This addresses all problems the author writes about: the research doesn't live beyond a paywall, and people who are interested and qualified to read your work will get notified about it. Of course, putting a paper on ArXiV doesn't mean someone will read it. That's what conferences are for, for better or worse: spreading the word about your work, whether it's giving a talk, a poster, or just having a conversation over beer (non-drinkers must have an awfully hard time in this field). Mathematics is much more about people than one might think, and the best way to spread ideas is to talk to people who can be interested in them in the real world. Does it mean there's no place for blogging? Absolutely not; papers that get posted on ArXiV often are too dry to understand, and lack the informal motivation and intuition behind the research. We have lost the tradition of informal writing in mathematics, and it needs to come back. To that end, mathematicians do blog, but the thing is: it is hard. It is very hard to express the idea in a few words, to popularize it even to the peers in your field. It certainly doesn't take 30 minutes to write anything that others would be able to read. So math blogs exist, but are rather rare. And most certainly, Twitter is not the right platform for that. ------------------------------------- TL;DR: the author should take ArXiV seriously. [0]https://arxiv.org/ https://arxiv.org/