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There is a difference between optimising engagement by padding a trivial one sentence story, and writing good literature. Sahil Bloom is not Henry James.
by Grustaf 4y ago
There is a difference between optimising engagement by padding a trivial one sentence story, and writing good literature.
Sahil Bloom is not Henry James.
- Bakary 4y agoThe people who spend a lot of time pointing out the signal to noise ratio aren't going to be reading material similar ot that of Henry James either, because they'll interpret it as mostly noise and see the plot as the most important part.
- Grustaf 4y agoI'm not sure what you mean here, but if your point is that the average twitter user probably doesn't read real literature then I'd agree.
- Bakary 4y agoIt would be hard to explain but there's somewhat of an ironic tendency among techies to dismiss certain types of knowledge (such as the show-don't-tell aspect of good literature) on account of pursuing rationality and optimization.
- mcphage 4y agoTrue. Unfortunately, Henry James has really cut back on his tweeting ever since he died a hundred years ago, so I guess we gotta make do.