The other reason I’ve been posting less on LessWrong is that I feel like I’m hitting a soft ceiling with what I can accomplish here. I’m nowhere near the my personal skill cap, of course. But there is a much larger potential audience (and therefore impact) if I shifted from writing essays to filming YouTube videos.
There are also writers with a very large reach. A recommendation I saw was to post where most of the people and hence most of the potential readers are, i.e. on the biggest social media sites. If you’re trying to have impact as a writer, the reachable audience on LW is much smaller. (Though of course there are other ways of having a bigger impact than just reaching more readers.)
There are also writers with a very large reach. A recommendation I saw was to post where most of the people and hence most of the potential readers are, i.e. on the biggest social media sites. If you’re trying to have impact as a writer, the reachable audience on LW is much smaller. (Though of course there are other ways of having a bigger impact than just reaching more readers.)