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A model for journalistic copypasta
Why are prestigious outlets often so mediocre, and why do we read them anyway?
Here’s a thing that happens sometimes: Somebody thinks that A causes B. They gather data and find that A and B are correlated. They write a paper. In it, they’re careful to only say that A is “associated” with B, and that the data is imperfect, and that they only...
How I learned to stop worrying and structure all writing as a list
We like lists because they are an objectively good way to organize information. They allow readers to quickly and easily get what they want.
Say you want to learn about sleep. You see two articles: 1. "Theory and practice of effective sleep" 2. "Seven insights about sleep" Are you drawn to the second? I am. Of course, I hate myself for this because I've internalized the idea that lists are cheap and low-class. But...
So you're thinking about writing on the internet
Observations on the dynamics of writing and commenting.
I'm not famous or successful, so why should you care what I think? Well, I have some observations about the dynamics of writing on the internet that I think my (even more non-famous and non-successful) self would have benefited from when I started. The whole idea of writing is crazy:...
