Scott Alexander says he nearly deleted some blog posts that readers later loved because he thought they were too crazy to publish.

“And then gradually, I got enough positive feedback that I managed to convince the inner critic in my head that probably people will like my blog post. But there are some things that people have loved that I was like.”

“absolutely on the verge of no I'm just going to delete this it would be too crazy to put it out there that's kind of why I say that maybe the limiting factor for so many of these people is courage because everybody I talk to who blogs is like within one percent of not having enough courage at blogging”