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It's not a novel idea - consumption for identity purposes is a very, very old and well explored meme: https://www.google.co.uk/?q=consumption%20and%20identity#
by calpaterson 12y ago
It's not a novel idea - consumption for identity purposes is a very, very old and well explored meme:
https://www.google.co.uk/?q=consumption%20and%20identity#q=consumption+and+identity https://www.google.co.uk/?q=consumption%20and%20identity#q=c...
A lot of basic sales books/courses discuss it. I've met a few people in the traditional publishing and they seem to well understand that the majority of books sold are never read.
I am actually having great trouble getting motivated to read the whole essay. Gwern's writing suffers a lot from poor sequencing, excessive footnotes/hyperlinks/digressions and a general reluctance/inability to summarise. Wish he could find a way to make his writing "skim-able", so that I can at least tell what the rough subject is before investing an hour to understand it.
- wpietri 12y agoYeah. When I write like this, it's because I'm really writing for me. It's my way of processing a topic. But if I'm going to publish something, I'd rather write for the reader. I just threw out half a book manuscript because I realized that while my intended audience was novice entrepreneurs, my actual audience would be grizzled, grumpy old veterans like myself. Eventually I hope I'll start fresh and really write for my readers.