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2 min readOct 27, 2020
- How to get promoted — another Moloch post (Meditations on Moloch, Moloch hasn’t won, …)
- Another note taking discussion at HackerNews — I used to have a PersonalWiki (https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://zby.aster.net.pl/kwiki/*) running off my desktop in my living room, but it was too cumbersome to keep my own server especially when I was working abroad. I switched it off, and then my backup drive failed — I have only what was saved in the Archive. Then I had a blog on Blogspot — but Google neglected it and I started to have problems with logging into the blog editor (even though I used gmail constantly) — it still is there: http://brudnopis.blogspot.com/ but I probably cannot access the editor. Then I started a blog at Medium: https://medium.com/@zby It kind of works — but I hate the fact that to be a fully supported author I have to put my blog behind their paywall. I understand the need for a business model — but this one does not work for people like me, who write because they have something to say and not because they try to make money directly from their writing. I also started a paper notepad with Zettelkasten method — I have some notes there, but I haven’t established an effective habit for it. I’ll see how that develops — but I still want to publish my thoughts. I wish I stayed with my PersonalWiki — I feel a need to constantly add and modify the articles even after publishing them. But the ideal would be something that works like: https://www.gwern.net/About — now I understand the need for a LongSite (https://www.gwern.net/About#long-site). The recommendations at HackerNews and elsewhere usually talk only about features but lack discussion of business models
- A contending answer to the question why the second wave of Covid in Europe seems so much less severe: The first wave in France was 10x underestimated.
