I’ve noticed a peculiar pattern in my blog posts: the more original I consider a post, the less interesting it seems to everyone else—at least as measured by page views and Reddit comments.
Occasionally I publish a blog post I consider to be blindingly obvious, only to discover it’s actually heretical.
I come up blank on a regular basis when thinking about the usefulness of sharing something. Useful content tends to teach me a model or enable me to built one.
Unexpectedly useful content extends a model the writer didn’t know the reader had or fills a conceptual hole of the readers model.
Unexpectedly useless content tries to teach about something the reader already has a good model for.
I’d love to have even a bad heuristic (for not totally obvious cases) of this problem.
Occasionally I publish a blog post I consider to be blindingly obvious, only to discover it’s actually heretical.
Yes—if not heretical, at least interesting to other people! I’m going to lean into the “blogging about things that seem obvious to me” thing now.
I come up blank on a regular basis when thinking about the usefulness of sharing something.
Useful content tends to teach me a model or enable me to built one.
Unexpectedly useful content extends a model the writer didn’t know the reader had or fills a conceptual hole of the readers model.
Unexpectedly useless content tries to teach about something the reader already has a good model for.
I’d love to have even a bad heuristic (for not totally obvious cases) of this problem.