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Re:Why Blog If Nobody Reads It? by ghaff on Sunday February 09, 2025 @02:19PM (#42992921)
I regularly have conversations with people that end up with some form of "Let's not belabor this over beers but I'll send you a link to something I wrote. It may be a little bit stale but let me know what you think and we can follow up."

Blogging has internal benefits of organizing thoughts or even just being a fun hobby. But it's external validation as well. Sure, writing a book is even more but that's probably 100s of times more work.

Re:Why Blog If Nobody Reads It? by boznz on Sunday February 09, 2025 @04:36PM (#42994285)
I have two book and tons of blog posts only a few people have read.. Still feels good. I even wrote a blog post on why.
Re:Why Blog If Nobody Reads It? by WOTERMEON on Sunday February 09, 2025 @06:22PM (#42995175)
Link? There’s nothing in your bio
Re:Why Blog If Nobody Reads It? by boznz on Sunday February 09, 2025 @09:15PM (#42996243)
Re:Why Blog If Nobody Reads It? by card_zero on Monday February 10, 2025 @12:38AM (#42997272)
Writing to fix all the slightly imperfect books that intrigued but disappointed you, you're onto something there.
Re:Why Blog If Nobody Reads It? by rurban on Monday February 10, 2025 @12:17PM (#43002644)
Oh, so you are the guy with the unfixed ChatGPT ascii2dec: https://rodyne.com/?p=1674
Re:Why Blog If Nobody Reads It? by boznz on Monday February 10, 2025 @02:36PM (#43004289)
guilty, my 1 viral moment in 10 years which broke my cheap web hosting :-)
Re:Why Blog If Nobody Reads It? by TeMPOraL on Monday February 10, 2025 @04:07AM (#42998304)
> "Let's not belabor this over beers but I'll send you a link to something I wrote. It may be a little bit stale but let me know what you think and we can follow up."

How is it being received by those people? I can't help but imagine the response being:

"Okay but then what's the point of us sitting here with beers?"

Re:Why Blog If Nobody Reads It? by luckyandroid on Monday February 10, 2025 @04:45AM (#42998632)
Yeah I agree, someone saying they don't want to talk anymore because they've already written about something stops it being a discussion and makes it into some sort of lecture but without the notes. If you're insisting on telling someone you wrote about the current topic of conversation, you can just mention it and carry on with it. Like authors who go on podcasts, they'll say "Like I wrote in chapter X, I think that..." - the conversation shouldn't be killed off. Comes off as a bit arrogant.
Re:Why Blog If Nobody Reads It? by vishnugupta on Monday February 10, 2025 @05:10AM (#42998773)
I agree. Mentioning blog in the end is probably a better way. Finish the conversation, chain of thoughts and then before switching over to next topic or when saying byes or even a day or two later send them your post. But not in the middle of a conversation.
Re:Why Blog If Nobody Reads It? by ghaff on Monday February 10, 2025 @11:56AM (#43002406)
Maybe I didn't get the nuance in the best way. I think it would be more in the vein of we've probably explored this topic as much as we feel like it at the moment but maybe we can continue the conversation via some more deeply-thought sources.