Being too ambitious is a clever form of self-sabotage

headline is enough, rest is probably fluff anyway (haven't clicked, headline sounds thoughtful & reasonable)

I found this to be a good read, and I can only recommend at least skimming it through.

Why's that?

Thanks!

it rewards viral, vague behavior that only draws clicks but doesn't actually generate knowledge

The windmills are that way

running into a windmill considered harmful

considered harmful considered harmful

One could make a vague substack post about this.

+1 - this resonated with me. For 25 years I have been an aspiring songwriter and it’s a constant battle against perfectionism and learned/imagined standards. I believe the right path is to just write a large volume of songs at a high rate no matter how bad they are, but that is an amazingly hard thing to let yourself do

Can you expound? I've heard about some controversy around them not moderating hateful content, which fair enough.

But how does it reward anything if you're not engaging with anything outside of direct article links or newsletters you subscribe to?

IMO your comment is not constructive unless you think the linked article is "viral vague behavior that only draws clicks"

It's constructive criticism towards the platform.

How does it do this? It hosts texts and newsletters? You mignt as well say any blog post hosting service is like that

It presents likes and reshares metrics. This rewards content that is vague and viral. If you can trick people to make numbers go up, doesn't matter the quality of the content.

It's garbage. C'mon, we all know this already.