I think you are just lazy, and there is no problem with that. Anyway, laziness is a sin, and some philosophers classify this sin as "the loss of taste for life", which is not good for you.
Have a personal web site
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> I'm not that interesting I disagree. Your thoughts on this topic have gone to the top of HN. To me, that implies you're interesting enough to be able to write thoughtful pieces that a bunch of other online armchair commentators agree with and upvote :) Don't sell yourself short, friend!
Being able to write an interesting comment in response to a particular topic that frustrates you is not at all the same thing as having spontaneous interesting thoughts about enough topics to make a personal website/blog about it.
Plenty of blogs are nothing but interesting comments on topics that frustrate the author.
Even some of the most well known writings in computer science are just that, like the short article by some guy frustrated with everyone using goto instead of functions/while/for/etc (the article that inspired countless "... considered harmful" headlines).
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I have a more minor issue, in that my mum once mistook a SciFi/horror film director for me, because of his website. I also share a name with a Victorian era author. As I’m now writing a novel, I’m going to have to publish with a pen name.
Perfect opportunity to add a mysterious initial. Ben Ÿ. W...
If I do that, I’m adding non-latin characters. B. 狐. Я. W.
(I don’t except a publisher would let me do that).
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#224I believe this is important. Mark Z. and the gang are Rich enough, they dont need or deserve your content anymore. It appalls me that there is a desert of content for a few years everywhere online as interesting blogs went dark as everyone posted on Facebook or Google+.
The Internet was always more interesting when people took the time (and it will take some of your time) to put their own content online on their own site. The internet and Society in general needs the diversity more than ever right now.
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I recently wrote a blog about “Dutch Oven Fried Chicken”[1], I don’t think it’s particularly interesting and anyone can do it. However, now I can send a link to a friend and go back and make the recipe myself. Blogging for me isn’t about popularity. It’s about being able to share ones ideas and document your interests. I send links to my blog all the time, because I wrote about topics I found challenging / fun. I don…
> I don’t think it’s particularly interesting and anyone can do it. However, now I can send a link to a friend and go back and make the recipe myself. I used to have a blog or two back in the day and two things I noted back then was: 1. If I figured something out that I hadn't found a solution to elsewhere on the net people would find their way to my site. No further SEO necessary. (I don't know if this would work an…
You're actually touching on the reason why SEO is an anti-pattern for society. Search engines (ideally) eventually find the best source of information for a query. SEO artificially skews these results.
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#226I don't want a personal web site. I've had a handful of them in the past, and I've thrown together a couple shitty blogs over the years, but there are three big reasons why I don't anymore: I'm not that interesting; I don't have anything to show off; and inevitably it'll either become a chore or go out of date. Like everyone, I harbor fantasies about how interesting I am, and if I run into you at the pub, I'll talk y…
> and inevitably it'll either become a chore or go out of date.
That, or you might feel pressurized into finding some interesting hobbies or pastimes. The horror!
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#227I don't think everyone must have a website, but I do think many more people would if they realised that the cost and difficulty of setting one up are much lower than they used to be.
A personal site can be about pretty much whatever you want, and look how you want it to look. It doesn't need to be a sales pitch, or on topic all the time. It doesn't need to come top in google when you search for your name. You get to decide why you're building it and who your target readers are (if any).
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#228Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is a well-written comment from an interesting point of view. That's all you need to write a blog article. If there are things you'd rather be doing than writing a blog, do them instead, but a blog doesn't have to be an exercise in personal branding. It can just be a place where you publish your thoughts and the things you've learned.
This is a well-written comment from an interesting point of view. That's all you need to write a blog article. Writing HN comments is much easier than writing blog posts because the inspiration is the story that's been linked to; for a blog post you don't have that starting point, you just have a blank page. That's a heck of a barrier for most people when they're starting out.
I've considered rolling comments I've made here into blog posts. I'm not sure if that's a fox paws[0], though.
[0] I know. I did it on purpose.
Re: Have a personal web site
#229I think you are just lazy, and there is no problem with that. Anyway, laziness is a sin, and some philosophers classify this sin as "the loss of taste for life", which is not good for you.
Sins are a social construct. Laziness is a state of being that many people aspire to, but few can realistically achieve without serious detriment.
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#230If you wanted to start one, what would be the easiest way of doing so, preferably an all static site. ?