Why oh why do people abuse twitter to post entire blog posts. Do they also drink from plates, and shower in the sink? Write kernels in Javascript? smh
gorkish 1 hour ago | parent |on "I don't really get the beef with this..."
you and I have very markedly
gorkish 1 hour ago | parent |on "I don't really get the beef with this..."
very different ideas about what
gorkish 1 hour ago | parent |on "I don't really get the beef with this..."
"pretty decent" means
gorkish 1 hour ago | parent |on "I don't really get the beef with this..."
because I actually think this kind of
gorkish 1 hour ago | parent |on "I don't really get the beef with this..."
nonsense is really quite bullshit.
Even if you add comments on your blog you will never get the same thing you get on twitter.
That said, I don't think Twitter threads works for all sorts of written content either.
If it were not in such an awful format, I might have read further. I was interested enough to see what the post was about, but the format was enough to make me think "I'm not that interested".
Could go either way. I'm not saying he should change the way he does things just to please me, and I might not be a reader he cares about, and that's fine.
I also understand that it could be the act of publishing a piece at a time, and having it immediately be publicly available, that pushes him to actually complete the post (adding just enough pressure on himself, or whatever).
I just wonder if the format choice might have a larger impact than he thinks.
My suggestion was intended to be constructive. I was thinking perhaps he could still get the effect of the twitter-like way of doing things, while ending up with a final format that would appeal to a broader audience.
Of course this is all just speculation on my part. Likely he will not even see what I suggested, not that I really expected him to.
I for one often feel that if I have something long to write, I need to open a proper word processor rather than paste it into a nondescript box, less I somehow lose what I was writing. I also feel that in some of those tiny boxes, I can't adaquately arrange my thoughts, as I can't see the structure of what I wrote before adequately.
Perhaps the twitter format alleviates the writer's tension by forcing them to "chunkify" (packetize?) their writing into small portions, with the satisfaction of being able to hit "enter" and calling it done after every little one.
Of course, I think paragraphs can accomplish this as well.
But coming back to my original statement, I wonder how the common tools of today makes us look differently at how we compose and structure our thoughts. If I think of the way I'd communicate to colleagues over chat, or email, a collaboration tool, or heck, on HN or Reddit, and compare that to how I'd go about writing a blog post or paper, they're quite two different things.
I'm mostly glad it's not Medium or some other paywalled shit.