2020 was a weird year due to COVID, with lots of posts that were important and urgent but not timeless, which had led some people to ask: how should that impact the review?
I say: it’s useful to reflect on things even if they weren’t timeless, if they were important, which I think many early writings on COVID were. What impact did the post have? What could have been written instead? I’d focus less on “this is what I would have written if I knew then what I know now”, but instead “how well were we reasoning under uncertainty?”.
As well, the review is connected to making a book but is not just about the book. As lsusr points out, we’re not going to put Harry Potter fanfiction in a book sold for revenue, but it’s still worth thinking about that post. We’re experimenting with donation buttons this year, and I suspect that those will see some use for things that might not be useful to read again but which were very useful to read the first time.
2020 was a weird year due to COVID, with lots of posts that were important and urgent but not timeless, which had led some people to ask: how should that impact the review?
I say: it’s useful to reflect on things even if they weren’t timeless, if they were important, which I think many early writings on COVID were. What impact did the post have? What could have been written instead? I’d focus less on “this is what I would have written if I knew then what I know now”, but instead “how well were we reasoning under uncertainty?”.
As well, the review is connected to making a book but is not just about the book. As lsusr points out, we’re not going to put Harry Potter fanfiction in a book sold for revenue, but it’s still worth thinking about that post. We’re experimenting with donation buttons this year, and I suspect that those will see some use for things that might not be useful to read again but which were very useful to read the first time.