I love your blog with Anders! Don't overthink writing. Just understand that
1. Quality will naturally vary, and
2. Some ideas take multiple drafts to hash out.
In exactly the same way, not all apple pies are delectable. One has only a little time on Earth to pick apples, cut them, and bake them into pies. A good cook loves all his creations, but still admits that some end up burned, and thrown into the compost pile to be eaten by homeless people and rabid raccoons.
Thank you for the encouragement. May I ask where you came from? Did you find this blog through a search engine or otherwise? It would be great to know, because my main reason for blogging is to get into contact with people like you: people who are open-minded and interested in a little bit of everything.
> An interesting text must contain both things the readers don't know and things they know.
When I read this sentence I thought about a podcast "99% invisible" which does this job perfectly. It's usually about things that seem to be "basic" and explains their background. The last episode I listened to was about potted plants. I'm not a big fun of plants myself (I regard them as a kind of a waste of time) but I loved to listen how potted plants were used in Victorian era, how they were brought to Europe and why people like plants. The connection here would be plants - something really common and the historical and economical background for them.
That sounds interesting! I like to read texts structured like that. But I never listen to podcasts and I am curious about why other people do so: Is it because reading is sometimes impossible, is it because listening feels better than reading or is it because some content is only available in podcasts and not in text?
I sometimes think that I should get the equipment for listening to podcasts because I suspect podcasts could make me a little less stupid when I work with carpentry and stuff like that. But I haven't taken that step yet.
I love your blog with Anders! Don't overthink writing. Just understand that
1. Quality will naturally vary, and
2. Some ideas take multiple drafts to hash out.
In exactly the same way, not all apple pies are delectable. One has only a little time on Earth to pick apples, cut them, and bake them into pies. A good cook loves all his creations, but still admits that some end up burned, and thrown into the compost pile to be eaten by homeless people and rabid raccoons.
Thank you for the encouragement. May I ask where you came from? Did you find this blog through a search engine or otherwise? It would be great to know, because my main reason for blogging is to get into contact with people like you: people who are open-minded and interested in a little bit of everything.
Hm... I found your blog when you or Anders made a post at another substack, possibly AstralCodexTen.
Probably Astral Codex Ten. Well, that's an argument for me to continue my disorderly commenting attempts.
> An interesting text must contain both things the readers don't know and things they know.
When I read this sentence I thought about a podcast "99% invisible" which does this job perfectly. It's usually about things that seem to be "basic" and explains their background. The last episode I listened to was about potted plants. I'm not a big fun of plants myself (I regard them as a kind of a waste of time) but I loved to listen how potted plants were used in Victorian era, how they were brought to Europe and why people like plants. The connection here would be plants - something really common and the historical and economical background for them.
That sounds interesting! I like to read texts structured like that. But I never listen to podcasts and I am curious about why other people do so: Is it because reading is sometimes impossible, is it because listening feels better than reading or is it because some content is only available in podcasts and not in text?
I sometimes think that I should get the equipment for listening to podcasts because I suspect podcasts could make me a little less stupid when I work with carpentry and stuff like that. But I haven't taken that step yet.