Publishing anything is a ton of work. People don’t do a ton of work unless they have a strong reason, and usually not even then.
I have lots of ideas for essays and blog posts, often on subjects where I’ve done dozens or hundreds of hours of research and have lots of thoughts. I’ll end up actually writing about 1⁄3 of these, because it takes a lot of time and energy. And this is for random substack essays. I don’t have to worry about hostile lawyers, or alienating potential employees, or a horde of Twitter engagement farmers trying to take my words out of context.
I have no specific knowledge, but I imagine this is probably a big part of it.
Publishing anything is a ton of work. People don’t do a ton of work unless they have a strong reason, and usually not even then.
I have lots of ideas for essays and blog posts, often on subjects where I’ve done dozens or hundreds of hours of research and have lots of thoughts. I’ll end up actually writing about 1⁄3 of these, because it takes a lot of time and energy. And this is for random substack essays. I don’t have to worry about hostile lawyers, or alienating potential employees, or a horde of Twitter engagement farmers trying to take my words out of context.
I have no specific knowledge, but I imagine this is probably a big part of it.