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Almost anyone who publishes something wants people to read it. The ones who don’t care how many people read their ideas don’t publish — they keep it to themselv
by spoonjim 6y ago
Almost anyone who publishes something wants people to read it. The ones who don’t care how many people read their ideas don’t publish — they keep it to themselves or just discuss it with friends.
- ricardo81 6y agoSounds somewhere in between Plato: 'Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something'
- solveit 6y agoNote that you learn to generate valuable things to say by saying things.
- jcims 6y agoPeople will read it if you link to it contextually. I made a throwaway video demonstrating the 125mhz Ethernet carrier for that etherify HN post a month or so ago. I posted the link in a mid-level comment. 200 people watched the video. Today we view that number as approximately zero. But that's past Dunbar's number. That's more people than I will have any kind of meaningful relationship with simultaneously. Most people would get a little nervous standing up in front of 200 people and saying anything. Our sense of scale has been mutated.
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- ptr2voidStar 6y agoIt is astonishing that you have to state this manifestly evident fact.