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This post appears to be part of an experiment in "micro posting": > Usually, I try to aim for a certain standard of quality in my writing, and this can really

by aazaa 6y ago

This post appears to be part of an experiment in "micro posting": > Usually, I try to aim for a certain standard of quality in my writing, and this can really hold me up from writing about something I want to write about. > Sometimes it takes a week or more just to write one post. Yeah, perfection is killer. > It gets worse when I add images, because I agonise over them. > So I’m going to be writing more things to a lower quality. I’m calling these ‘Micro’ posts, and you can find a full list here: Micro. > They will be just what I’m thinking about, or some small observations, or whatever. Generally without pictures, without proofreading, without rewording each sentence hundreds of times. Almost as if I have a typewriter and a stream of conciousness - no going back to make changes. https://jetholt.com/may-2020-microblogs/ https://jetholt.com/may-2020-microblogs/ This idea also fits in with the topic at hand: starting many things. With a rapid-fire, just-get-it-out "micro" posting style, you can spend a little time considering far more ideas than you would have before. The funny thing is that it would have never occurred to me that this particular post was written in this way because it seems very well conceived and organized.

Jetroid 6y ago
That's a great perspective, thank you. Funnily enough, I'd consider this post to be on the borderline between a micropost and a regular post. Of all of my microposts, it's the one that I dedicated the most time to - though still much less than a post that would go on the homepage. You've really hit the nail on the head though. By writing every day-ish, it lead me to start this post, which made me realise that I needed/wanted to dedicate a lot of time to to fully explain and say what was on my mind. (I reordered some of the paragraphs and added bits here and there, which I didn't do for most microposts to keep them 'micro') By trying lots of posts, I found one that I wanted to go into detail with, which ultimately lead to it being the first post of mine to rank on the HN front page. Wow!

by aazaa 6y ago

Jetroid 6y ago

That's a great perspective, thank you. Funnily enough, I'd consider this post to be on the borderline between a micropost and a regular post. Of all of my microposts, it's the one that I dedicated the most time to - though still much less than a post that would go on the homepage. You've really hit the nail on the head though. By writing every day-ish, it lead me to start this post, which made me realise that I needed/wanted to dedicate a lot of time to to fully explain and say what was on my mind. (I reordered some of the paragraphs and added bits here and there, which I didn't do for most microposts to keep them 'micro') By trying lots of posts, I found one that I wanted to go into detail with, which ultimately lead to it being the first post of mine to rank on the HN front page. Wow!