A blog post is a search query

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This is a summary (of what I was interested in, only) of the article "A blog post is a very long and complex search query to find fascinating people and make them route interesting stuff to your inbox" [^1]

Why do you write?

You write to find your tribe

What do you want to write?

You ask yourself: What would have made me jump off my chair if I had read it six months ago (or a week ago, or however fast you write)? If you have figured out something that made you ecstatic, this is what you should write.[^1]

How do you want to write?

(...) longish and detailed

(...) don’t just talk in the abstract but show you with examples, preferably many examples, and preferably taken from the real world so they are messy.

[^1]: A blog post is a very long and complex search query to find fascinating people and make them route interesting stuff to your inbox - https://escapingflatland.substack.com/p/search-query

Significant Revisions

Apr 4, 2023: Original publication on dariomac.com