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I’m trying to understand who the target audience is. Phrasing my comment a slightly different way: what’s the point of writing *in public* if you don’t get fee
by kareemm 5y ago
I’m trying to understand who the target audience is.
Phrasing my comment a slightly different way: what’s the point of writing *in public* if you don’t get feedback?
- wepple 5y agoToo much feedback (especially when it comes to sharing your own thoughts) poisons the purity. It’s a cliche that every musicians best work is their early stuff. Once you become popular, famous, entangled in expectations and opinions, you lose the thing that made you great.
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- detaro 5y agoYou are misrepresenting it: Not caring about numbers/analytics isn't "no feedback". People can still leave comments, email, ... And the usefulness of writing isn't connected to if people can reach the author or not.
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- genmon 5y agoFor me - Writing publicly is minimum viable pressure to make me better formulate my ideas. It doesn’t require feedback; 80% of the value is in my words being public. When my ideas are better formulated, it leads to me new ideas I wouldn’t have had otherwise - Over time (I’ve been blogging since 2000) I’ve found that the most valuable feedback is in email. You don’t get good signal to noise in comments or Web Mentions. RSS + a public email address is all I need - I can afford for my network to grow slowly. I don’t need to build big community with flurries of debate in a comments section. Writing publicly is an excellent way to keep in touch with the broad network I already have