Simon Willison talking to Corey Quinn on AI’s Security Crisis. During the podcast Simon touches upon how his frequent blogging is the reason he has become valuable in the AI space. The bold emphasis is added by me.
So I’m a blogger, right? I blog I’ve my blog’s like 22 years old now, and having a blog is a superpower because nobody else does it, right?
The, those of us who who write frequently online are vanishing you, right? Everyone else moved to LinkedIn posts or tweet tweets or whatever. And the impact that you can have from a blog entry is so much higher than that. You’ve got more space. It lives on your own domain. You get to stay in complete control of your destiny.
And so at the moment, I’m blogging two or three things a day, and a lot of these are very short form. It’s a link to something and a couple of paragraphs about why I think that thing’s interesting. A couple of times a week, I’ll post a long form blog entry, the amount of influence you can have on the world if you write frequently about it.
I get invited to like dinners at Weird mansions in Silicon Valley to talk about AI because I have a blog. It doesn’t matter how many people read it, it matters the quality of the people that read it, right? If you are. Active in a space and you have a hundred readers, but those a hundred readers work for the companies that are influential in that space.
That’s incredibly valuable. So yeah, I, I feel like that’s really my, my, my ultimate sort of trick right now. My, my life hack is I blog and people don’t blog. They, they should blog. It’s, it’s, it’s good for you.
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