I was recently namedropped by Justin Murphy, someone who has had great success capturing and holding intellectual attention across many years. Interestingly enough though his notice of my work is due to a very different motivation then growthmaxxing, engagement and eyeballs. Around a year ago when trying to decide how to conduct my intellectual work moving forward I had an important decision to make. Either, follow the algorithms or follow my philosophical mission. Following the algorithms dictated I be as public, accessible and scheduled as possible to attract the normal kind of attention that comes to these heuristics of publishing content online. Perhaps I publish an article at least once a week and conducting my research in public, ensure I have at least 3 twitter threads a week with appropriate call-to-action links while getting myself on as many YouTube channels and podcasts as possible. Maybe I even start making short videos for Tiktok and Instagram.
I've been having similar thoughts recently. How to get your stuff read, make some helpful connections, do some promotional work without it being reduced to competition in the attention economy. It's a hard task
In my personal experience, it is ridiculous (especially considering how much one pays) how similar developing and writing a thesis in a university is to following the algorithms. People who really listen and comment for the sake of real interest is invaluable, it’s also usually free. 👏great post, and congrats on the book.
I've been having similar thoughts recently. How to get your stuff read, make some helpful connections, do some promotional work without it being reduced to competition in the attention economy. It's a hard task
In my personal experience, it is ridiculous (especially considering how much one pays) how similar developing and writing a thesis in a university is to following the algorithms. People who really listen and comment for the sake of real interest is invaluable, it’s also usually free. 👏great post, and congrats on the book.