Re:GitLab – A $1B business where all employees work remotely
by wastedhours on Monday July 22, 2019 @01:21PM
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> why post it for the public?
Why not?
> the only judgement that matters.
Not really - you can have multiple target audiences. I.e. you can write for yourself first, and others second - the piece being relevant, with different focuses, for different people. Which is what the majority of these pieces tend to be (if they're not purely SEO gaming)
> narcissistic and time-wasting, a side-effect of having no editor to determine what is good for the publication, and no cost to cost publish an unlimited stream-of-consciousness
What's the problem with any of that? Is everything in life to be optimised purely for efficiency of delivery?
> The AI isn't in the "bullet-points" but in the search engine
My point was rather that some people here would rather boil everything down to purely a list of facts, without any element of story or framing.
Why not?
> the only judgement that matters.
Not really - you can have multiple target audiences. I.e. you can write for yourself first, and others second - the piece being relevant, with different focuses, for different people. Which is what the majority of these pieces tend to be (if they're not purely SEO gaming)
> narcissistic and time-wasting, a side-effect of having no editor to determine what is good for the publication, and no cost to cost publish an unlimited stream-of-consciousness
What's the problem with any of that? Is everything in life to be optimised purely for efficiency of delivery?
> The AI isn't in the "bullet-points" but in the search engine
My point was rather that some people here would rather boil everything down to purely a list of facts, without any element of story or framing.