I see. Then I’ll point to my feedback in the other comment and say that the journalism post was likely better written despite your lower time investment. And that if you spend a lot of time on a post, I recommend spending more of that time on the title in particular, because of the outsized importance of a) getting people to click on your thing and b) having people understand what the thing you’re asking them to click on even is. Here are two long comments on this topic.
Separately, when it comes to the success of stuff like blog posts, I like the framing in Ben Kuhn’s post Searching for outliers, about the implications for activities (like blogging) whose impacts are dominated by heavy-tailed outcomes.
I would say I took at least 10 hours to write it. I rewrote it about 4 times.
I see. Then I’ll point to my feedback in the other comment and say that the journalism post was likely better written despite your lower time investment. And that if you spend a lot of time on a post, I recommend spending more of that time on the title in particular, because of the outsized importance of a) getting people to click on your thing and b) having people understand what the thing you’re asking them to click on even is. Here are two long comments on this topic.
Separately, when it comes to the success of stuff like blog posts, I like the framing in Ben Kuhn’s post Searching for outliers, about the implications for activities (like blogging) whose impacts are dominated by heavy-tailed outcomes.