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Scott Alexander observes that people may believe they have nothing useful to say and dislike blogging even when readers like and praise their posts.

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“I hear a lot of stuff from people who are like,”
“I hate writing blog posts.”
“Of course, I have nothing useful to say.”
“But then everybody seems to like”
“it and reblog”
“it and say that they're great.”
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