I was suspended on Reddit.

I was suspended on Reddit.

This is the way.

Have you found it a successful method in growing your subscription count?

So I see pretty modest traffic to my site. Discounting bots/scrapers, it's about a thousand visits a month, so it's not a lot. I also don't have a newsletter, which definitely doesn't help.

Honestly, you really should focus on a niche. For example, Simon Willison [1] keeps his blog super consistent, he's the AI journalist. Josh Comeau [2] is another good example from Hacker News: probably 99% of his content is front-end design and development. Becoming (or establishing oneself) as an expert in some space goes a long way toward increasing your subscriber count.

My articles are mostly satirical in nature and have all determinism of a literary brownian motion machine (writing on algorithms, thought experiments, fiction, etc.) so there’s not a particularly cohesive identity to the site.

Another thing that is often mentioned is that you need to publish regularly and often. I tend to be a perfectionist, and spend a lot of time crafting each article with custom illustrations, animations, and interactive elements. This works for people like Bartosz Ciechanowski [3], but I'm not sure it helps drive traffic for me personally.

[1] - https://simonwillison.net

[2] - https://www.joshwcomeau.com/svg/interactive-guide-to-paths

[3] - https://ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch

Wasted?

I think so, personally. I wouldn't bank a lot on "the soul" per se, but Dawkins is absolutely one of those "smart but not wise" people.

I imagine people don't dig it because it can be woo and vibey, but the older I get the more I understand the value of the "imprecise" metaphysical/religious/etc whatever you want to call it.

Someone in this space who handles this very well, unlike Dawkins, is Nassim Nicholas Taleb.

Wise man Nassim Taleb who voted for Trump to help Palestinians and now Gaza and 10% increasing of the country he was born in is rubble.

Maybe the lesson is that all those public intellectuals are not that wise and we should follow people more that stay in their lane.

Quite a few people appear to have voted against Harris because they thought Biden didn't do enough to help the Palestinians. I can't imagine how they thought Trump would be better, but somehow they did.

do you have a source for the claim that he voted for Trump?

He hinted at it on twitter. But looking now claims he voted for a third party candidate ( https://x.com/nntaleb/status/1910066542399967268 ) . Doesn't make it much better because of the first-past the post voting system. Also he has a bit of influence and when he hints Trump is better on the Palestine issue, people might make this influence their decision ( https://x.com/nntaleb/status/1841515651820576902 ).

A few high-profile Muslims spoke out against Harris. This means every Muslim American voted for Trump. Obviously.

He's a Lebanese Greek Orthodox Christian, not a Muslim.

Boy are you in for a surprise.

I've found this to be a very good model, and I think I'd even go as far as rating it higher than Chatgpt.

ChatGPT has really degraded in my eyes, and I find Grok and Deepseek more helpful most of the time.

Of course, ChatGPT is better sometimes.

These models are just better than others at different cases, thus the reason to experiment.

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