Jeff Feiwell
@hyper
The absolute worst trend in writing is the now standard “thank you to xyz for reading drafts” It’s a thinly veiled status arb opposed to letting the writing stand on its own There is no reason to publicly thank a friend for spending 15 minutes marking up your draft. This type of thing is baked into friendship
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Cameron Armstrong
@cameron
Completely disagree because it helps get people who support you more distribution but appreciate you sharing aggressive takes 🫡
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Jeff Feiwell
@hyper
This is actually the issue. Why can’t people just do someone a favor instead of angling for distribution Genuine friends and colleagues > status games
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Cameron Armstrong
@cameron
why not both? @yb/I help each other out regularly and we have overlapping audiences so plugging each other is positive sum we can be genuine friends and also contribute to each other professionally
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Jeff Feiwell
@hyper
You are saying clearly here that appending the public thanks is for some gain (the connotation of “plug”) opposed to altruism. Which would prove my point although this is post hoc Another way to approach this would be did you begin doing this from first principles or mimesis?
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