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Eric Siu on why you need to pick one thing and commit to it. He removed blog comments to focus, chose blogging over Twitter, and argues that chasing every platform dilutes what you build.
Eric Siu on why you need to pick one thing and commit to it. He removed blog comments to focus, chose blogging over Twitter, and argues that chasing every platform dilutes what you build.
find a thing you want to stand for and a place where you can stand for it, and you stick with it, and you stick with it, and you get better at it. And so my blog used to have comments on it, and I took the comments off because they were ruining my life. And everyone said, you're not allowed to do that, it's against the law, every blog has to have comments. And I was like, if you want to put comments on your blog about my posts, please feel free, but I don't have comments. And amazingly, nothing bad happened to me. And Twitter showed up, and I was in the right place at the right time. I could have been very popular on Twitter, and And I said, well, if I go do that, I will have less resources to spend on my blog. So do I want to be mediocre at Twitter and blogging, or do I want to be not on Twitter and good at blogging? And this focus is scary because it means you committed to something. Whereas if you're always chasing the next thing, it doesn't matter if it doesn't work because there's another next thing.
