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 On the deep pleasures of posting practical advice online

My essay: https://clivethompson.medium.com/why-you-should-post-your-practical-advice-online-105afcae9e0

A "friend" link in case you're not a Medium subscriber: https://clivethompson.medium.com/why-you-should-post-your-practical-advice-online-105afcae9e0?sk=1f244090d20df8dcf0d93300b25d1dab 
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“Public thinking”!

Awesome. 😎 

I used to do much more of this (on my blog, mostly) than I do these days. Thanks for the nudge. 
 @59034767 Indeed. Check out Stack Exchange, https://stackexchange.com/ . It's a collection of sub sites that do this for different topics. The original one was Stack Overflow, which was for coding. It worked so well that its creators decided to expand to lots of other topics. 
 @59034767 Hear hear! All the more useful in an era of (yet) superfluous video tutorials and bull-smearing LLMs. Some words with a similar attitude on the "web's vernacular learning" I wrote a few years ago: https://heracl.es/tutorials/ sharing here to show the "drops of water in the desert" are condensing. 
 @59034767 I do this on my blog too when it took me a while to fix a problem and there wasn't any good info to find easily.
I hope it'll save someone some time having the same issue. 
 @59034767 I used the friend link for Medium but bought your book. Coders was amazing and helped my marriage!