Metadata
- Author: Henrik Karlsson
- Full Title:: A Blog Post Is a Very Long and Complex Search Query to Find Fascinating People and Make Them Route Interesting Stuff to Your Inbox
- Category:: 🗞️Articles
- URL:: https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/search-query
- Finished date:: 2023-12-26
Highlights
Sadly, it also leads you down a path that will likely end in existential loneliness and sobbing. What leads you there is the fact that the particular complexity that catches your interest is highly idiosyncratic (View Highlight)
New highlights added 2023-12-27
People feeling alone in their interests has always been true to a certain extent, but the internet has made it much worse (View Highlight)
you can get out of this mess if you want to. You do that by writing online (View Highlight)
you are not the only person who has no one to talk to about the things you get obsessed by. (View Highlight)
The people you will be able to have deep conversations with have, like you, already been surprised by the simple, clear things. They need more to get high. And this “more” will be wildly idiosyncratic. It cannot be summarized in a list of writing rules. (View Highlight)
I’m not saying it was a great essay; I’m saying I would have loved it. (View Highlight)
The trick, then, is this. You take the person you think is closest to the person (or type of person) you want to talk to and send what you write to this person. A subreddit is a good place to start. I usually do this by collecting interesting people on Twitter through good reply game. Then I can simply post my essays there and know they will have a chance of seeing it (View Highlight)