inquiry

He's not wrong that “90% of the game back then was showing up” and I think perhaps also is not wrong that “the scarcity now is resist the urge to instantly engage”. There's plenty of room for both, but for me the trick is going to be “showing up” without worrying about whether or not anyone is here reading this.

It's really easy, actually: simply assume nobody is reading, such that it's gravy if anyone is.

If one can't do that, I suppose one might benefit from remembering blogs are the consequence of thinking, which is arguably a biological illness – for example, if you compare the planetary-destruction-prowess of animals that can with those that seemingly can't.

It might also help to remember that everyone has utterly private meanings of words that occasionally sorta maybe kinda possibly somewhat align at random times, so that if others are reading your posts, it's pretty much a guarantee that what it means to them is quite different than what it means to you – i.e. what you intended to communicate.

But, anyway, that's all minor, unimportant stuff. The main thing is that those providing the means can earn a living from it, regardless the misunderstanding and/or quashed attention dreams careening from the intersection of writers and readers therein/thereof.