On: Kill your Feeds – Stop letting algorithms dictate what you think

[jahewson]

“The medium is the message” goes both ways though. For social media, the inverse is not just “go read a book” but the far more challenging “go write a book”. That’s just not something I’m going to do. I’m certainly not going to find a publisher, get past the gatekeepers, and find a wide enough audience to make the big chunk of time I had to devote to writing worth it.

[sien → jahewson]

Anyone can write a book now that is available to hundreds of millions people. The gatekeepers can no longer stop you.

However, as you say, writing something good enough and with a big enough audience is very hard.

[deadbabe → jahewson]

Write a book, that doesn’t mean sell and mass market a book.

It’s like keeping a blog on the internet no one reads. Liberating.