A random example on Youtube "I will tidy up your garden for free". They do that based on the income they get from writing/videoing about it, mainly from big tech algos. If everyone did it, that monetary value is lost from the explaining of it.
It's taking advantage of a curve for self-advantage which you're aware of which is fine, but doesn't really provide value in productivity in the broadest sense. What if everyone blogged about their work? As in literally everyone.
"What if everyone blogged about their work? As in literally everyone."
That would be great. This isn't a zero sum game - what's important is that each individual has an opportunity to document their work, look back on it in the future and occasionally show it to interested people.
Maybe it does for your historical reference example, like a CV. If we presumed that those pages with that content would get any traction at all.
Generally the way it's working is people continually pump out content, big tech algos surface it to other people and within a few days those pages don't receive any visitors at all.
If you have a great channel where people see that link, great. But most information discovery is via the big tech algos.
If the only viewer of my blog posts is myself (and often times it is), then I'd still keep writing if only just to keep a public journal of my thought process and things that I accomplished at certain times in my life.
Also fair, but most of the time the other people are a few close friends. I'm not trying to keep it a secret like a diary but I'm also not trying to get incredibly popular like a content creator or famous blogger.
> and within a few days those pages don't receive any visitors at all.
I think you're maybe talking about publishing things for different reasons, the quoted part kind of gives me that impression.
If the point is to get as many visitors as possible then yeah, just pumping out MVPs/concepts/hacks/prototypes might not be the best idea. But if your reasons are different, the amount of visitors might not even matter.
As many visitors as possible, not really. Just a channel where you may get interested visitors.
The point isn't about pumping out content to please the algorithms, it is that the algorithms prefer that constant churn of it, and it's overwhelmingly the method of information discovery on the web.
A random example on Youtube "I will tidy up your garden for free". They do that based on the income they get from writing/videoing about it, mainly from big tech algos. If everyone did it, that monetary value is lost from the explaining of it.
It's taking advantage of a curve for self-advantage which you're aware of which is fine, but doesn't really provide value in productivity in the broadest sense. What if everyone blogged about their work? As in literally everyone.