I'm a blogger too, not as famous as Julia, but I'm too famous for my tastes. [1] [2] [3] [4] I agree with Julia's points perfectly! In fact, some of those four

I'm a blogger too, not as famous as Julia, but I'm too famous for my tastes. [1] [2] [3] [4] I agree with Julia's points perfectly! In fact, some of those four posts were "boring" (I thought), but got a lot of traffic. I just want to add two more myths that are unfortunately pushed in today's clickbait culture. Myth: You need to make your posts clickbait. One of the posts linked about used clickbait-ish titles ("Considered Harmful"), but they weren't very clickbait-ish in general. Yes, my thesis may have been opposite of mainstream, but I don't think the titles were clickbait. Myth: You need to make your posts appeal to people's emotions, i.e., make them ragebait or similar. Those four posts are my highest traffic posts on HN, and they were all level-headed posts. I had an earlier version of my "Considered Harmful" post, and it was ragebait, but it didn't get much traffic (thank goodness!). Be constructive. I think if there's a theme to Julia's points, it's that: be constructive and useful. Sometimes, that means being boring. Sometimes it means having a short post, sometimes a long one. Sometimes, it means repeating something. Sometimes, it means skipping concepts. My $0.02. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34662666 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34662666 [2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30965805 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30965805 [3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28736238 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28736238 [4]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29671325 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29671325