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Why write content no one reads? It's 2021. Build a cathedral of a website for a single tweet, it will say a lot more about you. Although I wish, obviously, we
by an_opabinia 5y ago
Why write content no one reads?
It's 2021. Build a cathedral of a website for a single tweet, it will say a lot more about you.
Although I wish, obviously, we all read more.
- andrewzah 5y agoOnce I added stat tracking to my website I realized I had more hits than expected. Also, in general, it’s not really about the number of people that read it. If it’s important enough to spend time writing about it, then if even just 1 person reads the post that’s good enough.
- arp242 5y agoBecause it's fun and useful. I actually wrote a thing about this: https://www.arp242.net/why-write.html https://www.arp242.net/why-write.html Later I discovered others have expressed similar sentiments long before I was even born, e.g. "writing is thinking". Ah well, always nice to feel validated when you independently arrived at essentially the same conclusion as other people who are probably smarter than you :-)
- harterrt 5y agoWriting is useful even if nobody reads it. Writing clarifies and sharpens my thinking. I have ideas I wouldn't otherwise have. I wrote for the void for a long time. At the time, some folks on my immediate team found it useful. Now, a few years later, I'm still referencing those posts. The important hard work was actually writing and polishing the idea until it was good enough to publish.
- pgwhalen 5y agoAgreed. I currently publish a bit of writing about my software engineering opinions to a website that only a couple of my non-software engineer friends know about. It doesn't make much sense to them, but their playful criticisms help me hone my ideas and hopefully simplify my writing (something I have a big problem with).
- heavyset_go 5y agoOne of the best things I've done is keeping a wiki and log of my notes. Turns out that other people found them useful, as well. These days there are many easy to deploy options for hosting wikis and notes, especially if you're fond of Markdown.
- exolymph 5y agoYou might like the "small b blogging" ethos :) https://tomcritchlow.com/2018/02/23/small-b-blogging/ https://tomcritchlow.com/2018/02/23/small-b-blogging/
- mcbishop 5y agoThanks, I really appreciated this article. > Small b blogging is writing content designed for small deliberate audiences and showing it to them. Small b blogging is deliberately chasing interesting ideas over pageviews and scale. An attempt at genuine connection vs the gloss and polish and mass market of most “content marketing”.