alt Hacker NewsAuthor in 2015:
> If every time you write a blog post it takes you six months, and you're sitting around your apartment on a Sunday afternoon thinking of stuff to do, you're probably not going to think of starting a blog post, because it'll feel too expensive.
Author in 2025:
> This is why it’s so useful to work on an article for a long time. If you’re reporting on something for six months, even if the really concentrated part, the key visit, is only a week or two of that, you have time for notes to accumulate.
What a difference 10 years of experience makes eh?
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Someone had the bright idea to post another point of view at the same time, so they're both on the front page right now:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46311092
I take this to mean: look at how others do it, find what works for you and then do that.
The second article is here: https://jsomers.net/blog/the-mcphee-method
But then the "blog post" in the old example and the "article" in the new one belong to a different type of artifact, right? It's a bit like the distinction between "programming in the small" and "programming in the large". While belonging to the same medium and often done by the same people, they prioritize very different aspects.
I took this to mean, in the first case "I write an article every six months" and in the second "I work on each article for six months, but I work on multiple in parallel so I post them very frequently".
The first is being blocked/out of inspiration, the second is being meticulous.