On writing: Why entrepreneurs should write
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On writing: Why entrepreneurs should write
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#3As a technologist at feel at times that web entrepreneurship is all about writing: most entrepreneurs I have met outsource coding to someone else and all they do is write: blog posts, tweets, emails to investors, answering support forum questions...
It's common to hear stories that begin with "Sergey and Larry..." but I doubt those guys spent any time blogging and tweeting about how awesome Google was going to be. Just one more reason to be more like S&G, that's all :)
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I'll take the opposite stance. Writing improves your critical thinking skills and practicing and writing improves your writing.
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One of the benefits in forcing yourself to write is that you must learn to structure your thoughts and communicate them effectively. This is a valuable skill in any field.
I can imagine writing skills being especially important as a business scales and more and more information is communicated in written form, both with customers and employees.
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The actual value of writing is that you get your ideas down on paper and start seeing them formulated.
It's a way to test your thinking, a way to reflect, a way to put it out there and get feedback.
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Your post is just masturbation. You don't really need to write this comment, informing us of your opinion on this topic. But you do. Because you'd like some karma, and some recognition.
Only slightly sarcastic, but not everything has be to worrying about money.
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#9"Information is meant to be consumed. It's meant to be free. It's meant to reach as many people as humanly possible, shared, and discussed."
Let's be fair. Different information is "meant" for different things. My email password is not meant to be free. And I think if Calacanis has decided that his writing is now meant for a different level of freedom, that's his call. If others aren't jumping ship with him, they probably just have different needs/goals (and these may change). Thoughtful and open writing really does have a great power for networking/community-building, but there are trade-offs.
A good essay on the whole, I just don't think we should appeal to the moral aspirations of raw information. The current state of the internet seems to show that the world wants (often demands) free information, but we're still reeling (economically and otherwise) from this movement, and waiting to see where it ultimately will lead.
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Your post is just masturbation. You don't really need to write this comment, informing us of your opinion on this topic. But you do. Because you'd like some karma, and some recognition. Only slightly sarcastic, but not everything has be to worrying about money.
I disagree: HN discussions are discussions, not blogs. The primary motivation for posting something here is to engage in a conversation. It's a very different form of writing as compared to blogging, for example. Running a blog is like running a 2nd business (in addition to your primary startup) - i.e. you have to spend a lot of time not just writing, but getting traction, promoting it, etc. Of course that would be a distraction for S&L, since building a search engine (not getting blog traction) was their goal.