Every thought we express, happens in the context of something we've read or discussed etc. before. For example, this comment is based on the original text linke

Every thought we express, happens in the context of something we've read or discussed etc. before. For example, this comment is based on the original text linked, the comments here on HN, and my own thoughts. I think a writer should include all the references that lead to their thoughts expressed in the texts. This way the reader could follow these links to explore more adjacent topics. To me, it seems like the ecosystem of small website could improve on that. I'd rather explore other writers based on some topic than on a blogroll. In scientific writing this has a long tradition called related work. In some fields it degraded a bit into a section that merely lists all the works that should be named rather than a deep discussion of their contents. Obviously, this is also the original idea of Berners-Lee for the web. A good example that comes to my mind is this: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/somewhat-contra-marcus-on-ai-scaling https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/somewhat-contra-marcus-on-a...