I agree with the separation, but offer a different reason. Exploratory writing can be uncensored; public writing invites consideration of the reaction of the audience.
As an analogy, sometimes I see something on the internet that is just so hilarious… my immediate impulse is to share it, then I realize that there is no upside to sharing because I pretend to be the type of person who wouldn’t even think that was funny. Similarly, on more philosophical subjects, sometimes I will have an insight that is better kept private.
You see what I did there? If I were writing this in my journal, I’d include a concrete example. However, this is a public comment, and it’s smarter not to.
I agree with this. This is a constraint, otherwise, I would have more posts already. You don’t want to constrain yourself by needing to think about if what you are writing is something that you can say in public.
Though I wonder how much value is lost by people not posting certain kinds of content, because of this or similar reasons. If you want to provide more value, a good heuristic might be to talk about stuff that seems important, but that you do not want to share, because that probably indicates that other people will also not talk about this.
I agree with the separation, but offer a different reason. Exploratory writing can be uncensored; public writing invites consideration of the reaction of the audience.
As an analogy, sometimes I see something on the internet that is just so hilarious… my immediate impulse is to share it, then I realize that there is no upside to sharing because I pretend to be the type of person who wouldn’t even think that was funny. Similarly, on more philosophical subjects, sometimes I will have an insight that is better kept private.
You see what I did there? If I were writing this in my journal, I’d include a concrete example. However, this is a public comment, and it’s smarter not to.
I agree with this. This is a constraint, otherwise, I would have more posts already. You don’t want to constrain yourself by needing to think about if what you are writing is something that you can say in public.
Though I wonder how much value is lost by people not posting certain kinds of content, because of this or similar reasons. If you want to provide more value, a good heuristic might be to talk about stuff that seems important, but that you do not want to share, because that probably indicates that other people will also not talk about this.