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> faking like I care about these people Would it surprise you to learn that many authors actually adore their readers, and are grateful for every single one who cares enough to read and appreciate their work? I, personally, enjoy greeting strangers for hours on end, especially when we've a niche interest in common. I don't think the author is "faking," only fatiguing.
I don't even for a second believe that most authors care to the degree that they feign for the purpose of keeping up their popularity. Book signings are about keeping up brand loyalty and ego stroking.
Does anyone have a summary? ;)
>Some people are so poor, all they have is money.
Once you reach a certain level of wealth, I suspect relationships are more important for happiness than accumulating even more.
If there was a button you could push that would give you $10M, but also cause many thousands of people to constantly express their hatred for you online, would you push it? Would the average person choose to push it? How would it change their expected happiness?
A great thing about a pseudonym is if I don't like how an argument is going, I can just disengage and pretend it doesn't exist. Internet discussions are like sand on the beach. Pick some up, let it run through your fingers. There's nothing special about that fistful.
I wouldn't like the dilemma of either choosing to have a backbone, and being in constant confrontation, or choosing to disengage and ceding the frame of the discussion to someone else. With a pseudonym you're more free to be wrong or just stop caring.
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I gotta say... I would have quit writing the moment I became successful enough to be required to sit at book signings. I can't imagine sitting there all day long, bored out of my skull, faking like I care about these people. I got out of recruiting because of how utterly disingenuous the career is and how boring the work was, and the non-creative parts of being an author have zero appeal to me.
> faking like I care about these people Would it surprise you to learn that many authors actually adore their readers, and are grateful for every single one who cares enough to read and appreciate their work? I, personally, enjoy greeting strangers for hours on end, especially when we've a niche interest in common. I don't think the author is "faking," only fatiguing.
I'm reminded of this quote: >Some people are so poor, all they have is money. Once you reach a certain level of wealth, I suspect relationships are more important for happiness than accumulating even more. If there was a button you could push that would give you $10M, but also cause many thousands of people to constantly express their hatred for you online, would you push it? Would the average person choose to push i…
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Perhaps the main reason I use the Edge browser is because the built in copilot is pretty good at this kind of thing… I can summarize any webpage with a single click (or two…).
Is there a button that will post that summary so we can read it?
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