{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Writing what amounts to a few dozen printed pages over the course of years for an audience of hundreds is not really writing...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/162075216323/", "html": "<div class=\"question\"><strong>Anonymous</strong> asked: Writing what amounts to a few dozen printed pages over the course of years for an audience of hundreds is not really writing that works your will into the world. Even Leopardi hit seven volumes.</div>\n<p>I recognize the voice of this anon and you\u2019re actually pretty good at recognizing and invoking my insecurities as a spur to action so uh nice</p>\n\n<p>Yeah, I should be more famous and more people should be under my influence agree with you there; my plan to that end was to write good stuff and put it where people could see, which brought me all the fame and influence I have so far.</p>\n\n<p>Which isn\u2019t nothing; mere hundreds though it might be I\u2019m upstream from people a lot are downstream of and more of the kind of people with discriminating taste find me through them all the time</p>\n\n<p>Maybe the key is networking and it\u2019s not like that\u2019s never paid off for me before; I found a circle of fellows in the LessWrong diaspora and got Scott Alexander occasionally showing my stuff around because I impressed nydwracu who talked me up to them</p>\n\n<p>I don\u2019t live in Brooklyn or London though and I don\u2019t plan to; I don\u2019t play to the vanity of my inferiors and I don\u2019t plan to; I don\u2019t tweet and though I\u2019m sure I could raise my profile with a well-plotted campaign of leaving sick burns in the right people\u2019s mentions Twitter is terrible, the things people make of themselves to get attention there are terrible, it\u2019s mostly just a special case of \u201cplaying to the vanity of your inferiors\u201d anyway</p>\n\n<p>Maybe I should put out some longform, at the least I could package up some of my best tumblr work and add a few fresh pieces and\u2026 what? e-publish and buy ads on 4chan?</p>"}