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Open Thread: Is It Possible To Be A Small But Influential Blog?

Every time I promote some of my work, I realize anew that despite the wonderful readership I have – y’all willingly promote this blog even without my asking – there is no chance in hell this blog will ever be popular in the way most blogs are. I’m not going to make the front page

Busy

I’m happiest in my books. There are people I love, but the vast majority of people are very, very disappointing.It is amazing anyone has an audience in this age which celebrates the self so much.Younger people are the worst audience: inconstant, led by their whims, they really are the oldest people I know. They don’t

Understanding One’s Audience

Reading Aristotle’s Ethics slowly, stopping at every paragraph to ask “why was this paragraph written?” If one doesn’t read carefully, he seems to repeat himself a lot, or say obvious things. Truth is, he always has an eye to a particular audience and their concerns: i.e. he starts Book 1 talking about the problem of