One, writing a good blog post is not the same task as running a good blog. The latter is much longer-horizon, and the quality of the blog posts (subjectively, from the human perspective) depends on it in important ways. Much of the interest value of Slate Star Codex, or the Sequences - for me, at least - was in the sense of the blogger's ideas gradually expanding and clarifying themselves over time. The dense, hyperlinked network of posts referring back to previous ideas across months or years is something I doubt ... (read more)
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One, writing a good blog post is not the same task as running a good blog. The latter is much longer-horizon, and the quality of the blog posts (subjectively, from the human perspective) depends on it in important ways. Much of the interest value of Slate Star Codex, or the Sequences - for me, at least - was in the sense of the blogger's ideas gradually expanding and clarifying themselves over time. The dense, hyperlinked network of posts referring back to previous ideas across months or years is something I doubt ... (read more)