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Why You Are Scared Of Posting

2026-03-02 — Estimated read time: 2 minutes
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You know the feeling of writing (or creating) something, and it's just... not that good?

Here you are, after just having put down a decent amount of effort, and it's not as thoughtful as you hoped it would be. Perhaps it's just better not post this publically, leave it uncreated.

I want you to note a dissonance here. Where you judge your work based on the amount of effort you have put in, is completely different from a reader. You have just spent time and active effort for a while, but the reader won't have to put down that effort. I am a chronic skimmer, I can only read a couple of words before my eyes start to wander of, looking for keywords to figure out the meaning instead of actually reading.

The reader (me) will only have to at most read it, and at least skim through it. We won't judge you on the quality of your work based on how much effort you put in, only on how valueable it is against to how much effort it was to consume — and it's trivial to consume content. Only when you have created something that will leave me more unhappy, than before I saw it, you should perhaps avoid posting it. Like AI slop :)

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