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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.

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> "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?"

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If I was hanging out talking with someone, and have them terminate an interesting conversation topic by plugging their blog article, I'd feel cut off, and might even start to wonder if they're really seeing me as a friend or colleague, or is this networking for them?

It's not the blog reference itself, but rather cutting off a conversation topic this way, that would irk me in such situation.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Link? There’s nothing in your bio

https://rodyne.com/?p=1588

Writing to fix all the slightly imperfect books that intrigued but disappointed you, you're onto something there.

Oh, so you are the guy with the unfixed ChatGPT ascii2dec: https://rodyne.com/?p=1674

guilty, my 1 viral moment in 10 years which broke my cheap web hosting :-)

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