Why and how to write things on the Internet | Ben Kuhn
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Importance
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Date Added
9.12.25
TLDR
Instead of focusing on counterarguments for why not to start a blog, he shares the positive reasons for why you should start writing on the Internet. Then he dives into how with practical writing and blogging advice.
2 Cents
A long but good piece. This, coupled with Guzey's post, convinced me to start writing publicly.
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A couple notes on draft readers:
- Not all improvement suggestions are good, and not all good improvement suggestions are worth implementing if they would take too long. Don’t let yourself get bogged down from publishing by the feeling of “I should really respond to all those comments.”
- Conversely, there are lots of important ways of improving that draft readers won’t explicitly tell you, e.g. “you could have picked a more interesting topic,” so you’ll still need to do a lot of reading between the lines and experimentation. You can’t get good by just fixing what draft readers tell you to fix.
- Because of the above, the main value of draft readers is often getting their overall reaction rather than those detailed improvement suggestions (though those can be helpful), because the overall reaction helps me calibrate whether I’m producing stuff that’s overall good or not. So when asking for draft feedback, I’d suggest trying to focus your draft readers on high-level comments.