A few of my posts actually seem like they’ve been useful to people. OTOH, a large majority don’t.
I don’t have a very good ability to discern this from the beginning though. Given this situation, it seems worth “spreading the seed” pretty liberally. The chance of it being a useful idea usually outweighs the chance that it mostly just adds noise for people to sift through. Especially given the fact that the LW team encourages low barriers for posting stuff. Doubly especially as shortform posts. Triply especially given that I personally enjoy writing and sometimes benefit from the feedback of others.
Feels a little counterintuitive though. Or maybe just scary. I’m not a shy person when it comes to this sort of stuff but even for me I hesitate and think “Is this worth posting? Is it gonna be terrible and just add noise?”
I’d guess that I’m maybe 95th percentile or something in terms of how not reluctant I am to post (only 5% of people are less reluctant) and I think I am still too reluctant. I can’t think of any examples of people who seem like they should be more reluctant. jefftk comes to mind as someone who is extremely not reluctant, but even for him I’m totally happy with the almost daily posts and would probably appreciate being exposed to even more of his thoughts.
Spreading the seed of ideas
A few of my posts actually seem like they’ve been useful to people. OTOH, a large majority don’t.
I don’t have a very good ability to discern this from the beginning though. Given this situation, it seems worth “spreading the seed” pretty liberally. The chance of it being a useful idea usually outweighs the chance that it mostly just adds noise for people to sift through. Especially given the fact that the LW team encourages low barriers for posting stuff. Doubly especially as shortform posts. Triply especially given that I personally enjoy writing and sometimes benefit from the feedback of others.
Feels a little counterintuitive though. Or maybe just scary. I’m not a shy person when it comes to this sort of stuff but even for me I hesitate and think “Is this worth posting? Is it gonna be terrible and just add noise?”
I’d guess that I’m maybe 95th percentile or something in terms of how not reluctant I am to post (only 5% of people are less reluctant) and I think I am still too reluctant. I can’t think of any examples of people who seem like they should be more reluctant. jefftk comes to mind as someone who is extremely not reluctant, but even for him I’m totally happy with the almost daily posts and would probably appreciate being exposed to even more of his thoughts.