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Comment author: Gleb_Tsipursky 19 November 2015 11:27:34PM 0 points [-]

Yes, personal recommendations carry more weight. But mainstream articles have a lot more reach. As I described here, the Lifehack article was viewed by many thousands of people. This is the point of writing for a broad audience. Moreover, as you can see from the discussion you and I had about a previous article, the articles are based on research.

Comment author: ChristianKl 20 November 2015 07:24:32AM 1 point [-]

My comments are based on my experience with doing media interviews that have 2 orders of magnitude more reach.

Comment author: Gleb_Tsipursky 23 November 2015 06:36:51AM 0 points [-]

Have you done them on a consistent basis, as I am able to do Lifehack articles every couple of weeks?

I have also just published an article in the Sunday edition of a newspaper, described here, with a paper edition reaching 420K readers and monthly visits of 5 million.

Comment author: ChristianKl 23 November 2015 12:28:42PM 2 points [-]

Have you done them on a consistent basis, as I am able to do Lifehack articles every couple of weeks?

In 2012 I talked to rougly one journalist per month.

I have also just published an article in the Sunday edition of a newspaper, described here, with a paper edition reaching 420K readers and monthly visits of 5 million.

Okay, that's more than thousands.

I think that article. There's no deep analysis what ISIS wants but that's okay for a mainstream publication and recruiting is a factor.

In case you write another article about ISIS, I would recommend as background reading: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/the-strategic-value-of-compassion-welcoming-refugees-is-devastating-to-is/article27373931/ http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/03/what-isis-really-wants/384980/

Comment author: Gleb_Tsipursky 24 November 2015 09:32:34PM 0 points [-]

Cool, thanks for the links, much appreciated!

Separately, I'd be curious about your experience talking to journalists about rationality. Think you can do a discussion post about that?

Comment author: ChristianKl 24 November 2015 10:37:23PM 0 points [-]

My topic was Quantified Self with adjacent but not direct.