I have a conflict with posting articles now. Part of me wants to provide you with my best insights, and the other part of me wants to delete the post before I’m finished with it because insightful material is ignored by most people on the internet, and entertaining, yet worthless, material is spread around like wildfire.
I have about 700 readers on this site. I would easily have 10000 if I did loads of garbage articles instead of ones containing my most insightful thoughts. People look at a site and wonder how big its readership is, and care less about the content. A bigger readership means that the content must be more valuable right? The only healthy way to take this concept is to treat it as “entertaining”.
At least you know my internal conflict regarding writing here. Now, you might be wanting to tell me that if I am writing material for the top 5% of motivated individuals, I am losing 95% of the readership market, and that that is okay. It sure is okay when getting 1/20th of the profit is also okay, but that is not the case.
Jay-Z said “I dumbed down for my audience and doubled my dollars. They criticize me for it yet they all yell holla.” Jay-Z could buy the whole street or neighborhood I live in so I think his words are the ones to listen to.
We want to eat the cookie before we eat the lettuce, so the person selling lettuce loses business even though he is doing better for the consumer. A parent who tries to impart long-term value is not liked by a child, and instead the child likes his mischievous peer.
You 700 readers may not want me to put out short-attention-span useless content, but some hundreds of thousands of readers out there do. By the way, the title of this post was irrelevant. I just made up a random phrase.
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Twitter: berenguel
June 24, 2011 at 11:15 am
I feel slightly the same, even sharing your blog numbers. I try to write informative posts, and these get ignored. Then some dumb-a** writes 300 word posts about what they had for dinner and have more than 10000 subscribers that even buy their ebooks and courses. I don’t know what happens around Internet, probably too much LCD glare kills unprepared brains?
Cheers,
Ruben
Anyway, keep going – I enjoyed you writing, as always! Thanks!!
When you had Zero readers ? Who did you write for ? Yourself right ? and hoping that one day , one more person will join and then one more and see you reached 700. Now if ONE out of these 700 get influenced by you and end up being a changed person will it make you more happy ? rather than 1 million “Inane people” who careless… Write because you want to and write even if no one reads. CAUSE THE BIGGEST GIFT THIS LIFE HAS GIVEN YOU IS TO INITIATE SOME THING AND YOUR PROJECT IS IMPACTING 700 PEOPLE ALREADY.
Twitter: nickatovar
August 18, 2011 at 11:32 pm
Insightful words Gaurav, but I feel Armen’s goals differ from those you laid out.
Something that gets forgotten all to much, is our interactions/relationships with others. While it may seem that those surrounded by many fans are the most popular, most alive, I submit that what makes us alive is sharing our personal experiences and insights with others. Something that many “stars” fail to fully realize, and therefore can end up feeling very alone. Essentially without trying to truly understand and share with others, our existence may as well match that of a rock.