There is a sort of upside to this, in that to the extent that people are more inclined to post shortforms than longforms due to the lower perceived/expected effort of the former, there is a possibility of (optional?) UX engineering to make writing longforms feel a bit more like writing shortforms, so that people who have something to write but also have a feeling of “ugh, that would be a lot of effort, I’ll do it when I’m not as tired [or whatever]” would be more inclined to write and post it.
Relatedly, every few days, I find myself writing some long and detailed message in a DM, which I would be less motivated to write in my personal notes, let alone write a blog post about it, and sometimes the message turns out to look like a first draft of a blog post.[1] How to hijack this with UX?[2]
After I started talking about it, I found out that apparently “write an article like a message to an intellectual-peer friend” is something like a folk advice.
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There is a sort of upside to this, in that to the extent that people are more inclined to post shortforms than longforms due to the lower perceived/expected effort of the former, there is a possibility of (optional?) UX engineering to make writing longforms feel a bit more like writing shortforms, so that people who have something to write but also have a feeling of “ugh, that would be a lot of effort, I’ll do it when I’m not as tired [or whatever]” would be more inclined to write and post it.
Relatedly, every few days, I find myself writing some long and detailed message in a DM, which I would be less motivated to write in my personal notes, let alone write a blog post about it, and sometimes the message turns out to look like a first draft of a blog post.[1] How to hijack this with UX?[2]
After I started talking about it, I found out that apparently “write an article like a message to an intellectual-peer friend” is something like a folk advice.
Of course, also: How to hijack this with stuff other than UX?