Chad Aaron Hall
@readordieaslave
Edgewalker
Chad Aaron Hall
readordieaslave.substack.com
If you write a bad post it won’t get shared and no one will see it. If you write a great post and it goes viral, everyone on the internet thinks you’re a genius. Since content is shared organically, your best work gets way more exposure than your worst. The incentive in these situations is to ramp up variance and do the most interesting writing you... See more
Applied Divinity Studies • [Guest post] How Substack Became Milquetoast
Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit by John E. Douglas, Mark Olshaker
app.thestorygraph.com
Humans are much better at choosing between a few options than conjuring an answer from scratch. We’re also much better at incrementally approaching the right answer by pointing towards the right direction than nailing the right search term from the beginning. When it’s possible to take a “type in a query” kind of interface and make it more... See more
thesephist.com • Navigate, don't search
It's pretty amazing to see the knowledge that I've gained from reading Prisoners of Geography becoming applicable literally in under 24 hours.
I just learned about the intricacies of the South China Sea yesterday and now listening to news commentary I heard someone talking about South China Sea and I knew exactly all the things they were talking
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