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Lots of plausible deniability
If I find 10 backdated articles appear out of thin air in Waybackmachine I'm not going to ask the author to explain it. It just lowers their credibility in my mind and I move on. I'm not interested in proving to them or in a court of law that they backdated articles.
If you believe consciousness is a way for the universe to know itself, then expressing your truth in a blog is a way to participate in that process. The random assortment of atoms that make up "you" are gifting the universe a novel creation that could not have existed otherwise.
Whether you think this is of value is a different topic, but at the very least, it's a neat mindset to slip into IMO.
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I disagree. I write differently when I anticipate an audience (even if they never come). Maybe parallel: I notice when, for example, I edit videos in my own world I have a very different take on the edit when I am showing it to someone for the first time. Thinking to myself: "Now as I watch someone else watching it, I am become aware that this scene goes on a bit too long. This cut is a little abrupt, disorienting."…
> I write differently when I anticipate an audience (even if they never come). Is that good, though? If the product is purely for self-consumption, is the audience-anticipating version necessarily the better version? And at what point, after how many unread blog posts, do you rationally stop anticipating an audience?
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Usually it's a good thing, yes. Because you are forced to communicate clearly, cut the jargon and not dump your stream of consciousness. Instead you pay attention to whether what you're saying is of any value to another person.
> Because you are forced to communicate clearly, cut the jargon and not dump your stream of consciousness. Instead you pay attention to whether what you're saying is of any value to another person. Why is that good, though, if you're the only reader?
Blogging also creates something that never existed, and likely never would have existed. If you believe consciousness is a way for the universe to know itself, then expressing your truth in a blog is a way to participate in that process. The random assortment of atoms that make up "you" are gifting the universe a novel creation that could not have existed otherwise. Whether you think this is of value is a different t…
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From my anecdotal experience, of what my close friends share with me via DM these days, sadly it is indeed 95% video, and it is indeed 95% Instagram / TikTok / Facebook / Twitter / YouTube (in descending order). I continue to share with them 75% long-form articles, and 75% personal web sites / mainstream media web sites.
I actually looked a bit yesterday, and checked FB particularly to see what the situation was, and maybe have my own anecdotal take. At least part of what I found was that there did not seem to be much actual discussion. It didn't really even matter whether it was a video, a text article (like making food), or an event. A huge percentage of "conversations" ended up being nothing more than notification references after…
Writing on a blog is a very inexpensive way to establish your credibility about different subjects. This pays off later down the line when you can link people to things you've written in the past. Credibility is a very valuable commodity. It's worth investing in ways to build more of it. Don't assume people will stumble across your content (though they will eventually via Google). Actively send links to people who yo…
Unfortunately, these days writing a publicly-available blog is also a great way to train AI to replace you at the very job you're establishing credibility in.
Alas, that ship has sailed. So keep writing blogs.
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There's a lot of Tiktok accounts for woodworking, but, yeah, unsure how persistent or informative those may be.
And also how searchable it is. The great thing with blogs for me is that I can relatively quickly skip to the part where the information is that I want, because usually I don't need all of it.
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Where was this? Because in Italy i've never heard of anyone allowed to miss school for that by their parents.
It was in Canada although I don't imagine that has any bearing on the situation. It was also at a Catholic private school that shared the property with the church. I literally walked like 20 meters from the school building across the parking lot to the church and it typically only took 1 hour or so. In my own memory, people would get out of school for all manner of reasons, from sports to even family vacations, for e…
Going on vacation or even arriving late was very very frowned upon.
So, seems to depend a lot on the country.