I suspect it is something similar to the support issues for open source projects... you want to share your code, but the moment you do you find yourself having

I suspect it is something similar to the support issues for open source projects... you want to share your code, but the moment you do you find yourself having to support it at a cost to you (a good problem, you have people wanting to use the code)... but all you wanted to do was share. His words have gone from mere thoughts and opinions that he's felt a need to share, to being received in some other way that it was intended and loaded with so much extra interpretation that then leads to that support cycle. Writing is hard, but defending that writing when a large number of people will tear it to shreds, misinterpret it, over-analyse, take metaphors literally, and treat literal words as ambiguous... it can kill a lot of the desire to write and share. He clearly cares about sharing his thoughts and views, but because of the above, I figure he must find far greater satisfaction and reward from sharing those things with his YC classes who probably really listen to what is being communicated and acting on it, rather than just debating and pedantically arguing over the choice of phrase. I now expect to be downvoted for implying that we as an audience don't necessarily help him. And of course, I may be very wrong, it's just an opinion. I'm sure he'll pop up and say in a few hours time.