Tag: Blogging

  • Use AI to write more shorter pieces

    While people are all excited shout using LLMs to write – which is awesome, I am all about AI empowering people to do things they didn’t have the agency to do, writing being one of them – I am imploring y’all to get the LLMs to write more concisely. I am looking at all y’all…

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  • Good actionable pondering on coming up titles that people will click on and word-of-mouth spread. 🔗 How To Win Titular Metagames

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  • “The quick post is low-context, the effortpost is high-context.” As summarized a bit better: “The quick post is low-context, the effortpost is high-context.” 🔗 Why people like your quick bullshit takes better than your high-effort posts

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  • How to write in LinkedIn-style

    “It involves posing a provocative question, sharing a vulnerability that you have learnt from (ideally losing your job, pet or parent), using an emoji at the start of each paragraph, and the paragraphs being absurdly short.” 🔗 It pays to speak fluent LinkedIn — if you can crack the bro code

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  • Slop-reading

    If you’re not gonna bother writing it yourself, I ain’t gonna bother reading it myself. Yes, but…that is often a better way to read. Editorless writing (Substack) has lead to blog posts that way too long, and summarizing them is very nice as a reader. 🔗 If you’re not gonna bother writing it yourself, I…

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  • Links and original content

    Original content The Enterprise Turing Test, Software Defined Talk #544: “This week, we discuss Claude’s new Excel skills, whether AI is augmenting or automating humans, and the latest developer surveys. Plus, AI making the command line cool again!” The World Wide Web, Content, Work, Blogging Adventures, Short Videos, etc., with Russell Davies, Software Defined Interviews…

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  • I added a colophon for this site, just linked off the main homepage. There is a certain arrogence to explaining yourself, let alone your homepage on the World Wide Web. Who gives a fuck? But, I enjoy reading them. It does not contain much, but like all things homepage on the World Wide Web, not…

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  • Does anyone read predictions pieces? In late 2025, I predict that only people who read prediction pieces are people who write prediction pieces.

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  • What is it about “founder” style, content, and intellectual aesthetics that makes me cringe so much? Is there something there, or is just that the stuff they post on Twitter and LinkedIn is over-dialed in engagement?

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  • An ode to “via” – ‘the old ways’ – there are so many of these little things from the 2000’s web/bloggosphere.

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  • How public intellectuals can extend their shelf lives – Spend a lot of time steering yourself to be optimistic, and engineer a continuous drip of new ideas and perspectives.

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  • How (some) good corporate engineering blogs are written – Fast to post, few approvals, technical peer review. // My experience: in general, you’re better to post on your own, and let whoever owns the blog figure out if they want to report it, rewrite it, or link to it. Besides: better to own your content…

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  • Did I Make a Mistake Selling Del.icio.us to Yahoo? – Plan to never get past slide one: “Any decision was an endless discussion. I remember once, we had to present to a senior vice-president. We had a 105-slide deck prepared, and we didn’t get past the second slide because they ratholed about one fucking slide.…

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  • Why haven’t internet creators become superstars? – “Internet stardom bestows no glamor.”

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  • Nobody cares about your blog. – The post is pro-blogging, obviously. We should try to bring back blogging (or blogs masquerading as newsletters, whatever). With the collapse of Twitter, there’s lots of text based people who need an outlet.

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  • Publishing Versus Orchestrating

    Publishing Versus Orchestrating You can focus on short term delivery, or long term delivery. Do you follow the Twitter drama day-to-day, or just wait every week or two to see what happened? Do you write an article in a day or two, or write a 40 page PDF in a month, 120+ page book in…

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  • 🗂 Speak up more

    > If you’re authentic and fully invested in making an impact while enhancing the experience of those around you, then you strengthen your case. Conversely, if you’re inauthentic or let yourself be silenced in the moments that matter, your case weakens every time you withdraw. www.strategy-business.com/blog/Good…

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  • The Frontside Podcast: 10 Pounds of Dirt in a 5 Pound Sack

    Spreading the happy-sauce – Coté Memo #24

    Hello, as I like to do every six or so months, I moved some publishing infrastructure around. This time, back to Revue from the fully automated Mailchimp. Yay me. Links Here’s a mix of things I’ve done recently and other items I liked. The Frontside Podcast: 10 Pounds of Dirt in a 5 Pound Sack…

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  • Coté Memo #070: Lost in the review hole, Lord of Computing

    View this on the web There’s few links today, just some pointers to now published material that I’ve alluded to recently, and some moaning on needing to be a better team-player. Follow-up We got up to 100 subscribers, so good job there, y’all ;) As several people wrote, the word I was looking for in…

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  • Working up Twitter, and then letting it take over

    I have to work myself up in the morning to Twitter, because it’s so immediate and stressful. You shouldn’t have to dive completely into it. At first I’ll scroll through, and see if there’s anything from the last half hour or so that I may have missed while I was getting myself mentally prepared for…

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