Creators should separate the enduring spirit of their work—expertise, clarity, helpfulness—from the specifics that change, like blog structure and metadata. Both the art of engaging people and the science of concrete tactics matter, but only one stays constant.
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And so I think it's important for us as creators to differentiate the spirit of something versus the specifics of something. And I think the spirit of what we're doing will generally be unchanged. It's important for us to be an expert. It's important for us to write clearly. It's important for us to be as helpful as possible. It's important to create a good experience. All of those are kind of the spirit. The specifics will occasionally change what is best practice as it relates to structuring a blog post or metadata or navigation on a website. Those things will shift and evolve. And the nice thing is those are a little bit more concrete, like, hey, here's some specific advice on what that could look like. Whereas the spirit of something is a little bit more the art side of it. Like, how do I as a creator craft something that is, you know, artistic in the way that it is helpful, interesting, engaging. That's the content side of it versus the science side of it.