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How has your posting style changed on SN?

358 sats \ 14 comments \ @cryotosensei 22 Jan meta

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This came to me when I was taking my cold shower this morning. @PictureRoom mentioned that she has been taking cold showers for the past 3 years. Now, I have no excuses since I live in a tropical country and experience no winters haha.

I think I brought with me a LinkedIn-like mentality when I first came here two years ago. Find my niche, position myself as a content expert, and write informative articles that seek to educate (and perhaps entertain) the reader. I was preoccupied with finding the gaps in SN’s offerings and then writing something to plug some of the gaps.

This meant that I sometimes tackled topics that were out of my league. I did research and cautiously titled my article “8 Basic Things About (insert topic)”, for fear of incurring backlash if my understanding is more flawed than enlightening. I took myself quite seriously!

Some way along the line, I changed the way I post here. I treat it more as an online water cooler, where I just share snippets of my day with the people who happen to be here. I mean, I do try to maintain a certain rigorous standard in my writing, but the pressure’s largely off. I don’t feel like I have to fit into a certain mould for my writing to be acknowledged. I can just write random stuff. It may or may not resonate with people out there, but since writing is a reward in itself, I don’t anticipate readers’ responses so much.

I think I have come to pivot this way because I value people’s lived experiences more. Just knowing that someone is doing the same thing/ undergoing similar experiences lets me feel that I have reaped dividends. This makes posting less stressful for me, I reckon. I am enough. Maybe not enough to garner 10k+ sats per post, but that doesn’t negate my worth.

How about you?

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99 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined 23 Jan

This reminds me of @elvismercury talking about "scratching his own itch" with some of his writing.

That's what makes SN such a great third space. There are people here who are often interested in our own interests and thoughts.

I doubt it's what k00b envisioned, but I think it's what a lot of us have been doing.

36 sats \ 0 replies \ @cryotosensei OP 23 Jan

Inspiring how SN takes on a life of its own n keeps evolving due to the dynamic mix of individuals here

48 sats \ 2 replies \ @sasasuina 23 Jan

My favorite entrepreneur and investor, Duan Yongping, once said, "Everyone will become the person they are meant to be."

段永平：每个人都会成为他应该成为的那个人。

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @cryotosensei OP 23 Jan

Woah! I’m so impressed. How do you even know him?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @sasasuina 23 Jan

Mr. Duan is very well-known and actively engaged in an investment community in China. People have even compiled his past remarks into an e-book for learning and sharing, much like The Analects of Confucius or the more recent The Almanack of Naval Ravikant.

Btw I live in China, so I'm quite familiar with these things.

45 sats \ 2 replies \ @denlillaapan 23 Jan

Whatever I feel like. Whatever is on my mind. Actually, though, I think I've gone more toward shorter/health and fitness/link pieces over the crazy article-lengths money classes I wrote when I first join.

I dunno, good question

18 sats \ 1 reply \ @cryotosensei OP 23 Jan

I’m impressed by how you can pull an article together by using myriad references at the drop of a hat. I read your post n wonder, man this guy can really type fast haha

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @denlillaapan 23 Jan

tsss... Prev notes help! But yeah, I suppose so. Hone a craft long enough and you develop some sort of skill/expertise/ease in doing it

24 sats \ 2 replies \ @PictureRoom fwd 22 Jan

Hell yeah, I'm glad to hear that you're doing the cold showers. Do it for a year. You'll notice a difference in the way you approach difficult things that you may not want to do at first. At least this has been my experience...

Very well said, I can resonate with a lot of it. I've started a substack a while back to make the practice of writing more, and expressing my thoughts/ideas (even if they're dumb), so I feel like SN has been the same thing, except in the fact that we can earn and send value to one another. Per to per. That's a very cool thing.

I'll be sharing something new music/animation wise in the Music section (if there is one) so keep an eye out. Thanks for mentioning me in this, very cool.

Substack btw: https://pictureroom.substack.com/

21 sats \ 1 reply \ @cryotosensei OP 23 Jan

Seems like you are very consistent on Substack!

I’m curious. Why do you just post your photos on SN? Because you don’t want your paying subscribers to feel that they’re not getting exclusive content?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @PictureRoom fwd 23 Jan

I don't just post photos here on SN, I share other work as well. And paying subscribers? You mean the whole two of them? Being my sister and a friend of mine? They choose to because they enjoy my work, not that I share "exclusive" content. There's nothing exclusive other than the print sale, if I ever have one

45 sats \ 2 replies \ @Satosora 22 Jan

Hey, me too. Im not too worried about the sats. My posting style is still the same though.

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @cryotosensei OP 23 Jan

You have always been consistent 👍

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Satosora 23 Jan

You too. Maybe in the next couple of months l will make my million sats stacked post. I remember when l first got on SN, you had reached that milestone.