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When I have a slower publishing cadence my blog grows faster

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When I started writing online, the advice I got was to publish frequently and not overthink any single piece. The logic was this: the outcome for blog posts is a heavy-tailed statistical distribution—most pieces will be read by barely anyone, but a small subset of outliers will do hundreds if not thousands of times better than average. Ben Kuhn has

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Quality, Quantity, and Effective Iteration

The blogosphere abounds with free advice, and one of the more frequently-repeated morsels is to “be prolific”, and quality will naturally follow. The following story, from Art & Fear by David Bayles and Ted Orland, is brought in as supporting evidence: The ceramics teacher announced on opening day that he was

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