Comments on: Showing off erudition is more of a bug than a feature

By: Michael van der Riet

Michael van der Riet — Mon, 20 Feb 2023 05:43:10 +0000

The internet used to be and still mainly is, a feast of free, quality information. Substack is a retrograde move. Opinion piece blogging is mainly vanity. Why should I pay you for your self-overrated opinion? I would go for Substack if you could take one subscription that let you anywhere within it.

By: David Foster

David Foster — Sun, 19 Feb 2023 16:50:46 +0000

“showing off erudition”…it’s not just in academia. Years ago, I was in a marketing & sales staff meeting at which we had a guy come in to give us a presentation. It was more than a little confusing, and none of us could figure out where he was going with it. Finally, the exec running the meeting said:

“Fred, you don’t need to convince us that you’re smart. We already *know* that you’re smart. **Just tell us what you want to do!**”

A little brutal, but called for.

By: Mike-SMO

Mike-SMO — Sun, 19 Feb 2023 06:41:13 +0000

Jargon. Twitter is not dense. Twitter is trivial, as are most “one liners”. Twitter is just parroting the popular jargon. Anything worth the involvement will be complex, requiring some development. That isn’t Twitter. Twitter is, “Look at me”. At best best it is a flag to something interesting that you might want to look up elsewhere. That is not “dense”.

By: Freddo

Freddo — Sun, 19 Feb 2023 00:09:26 +0000

I still prefer my RSS feed reader both for high information density and a consistent look&feel across a wide variety of sites.