He quits… partially. Too difficult. Too hard.
[...] I’ve been wondering for a while if I should be blogging. Blogging is less of a conversation than I’d hoped, even among blog coauthors. It feels great to quickly put an idea “out there” in an accessible form, but I’m not sure such ideas have much chance to be built on by others. And it does take time. So I’ve decided to split the difference and switch from six to three posts per week. Eliezer will still probably keep posting daily, at least for a while.
#1. It’s hard to come up every day with an Earth-shattering blog post. The problem comes from Robin Hanson’s stated goal to publish regularly (6 times a week, or 3 times a week, or whatever). Once you lift this constraint and blog only when you have time and only when you enjoy it, then there is no problem anymore. People would check Overcoming Bias once a week instead of daily, that’s all. Or they will subscribe to the site feed.
#2. It’s hard to find the time to blog —unless you’re a professional blogger like Felix Salmon at Portfolio magazine.
#3. It’s hard to have other people write for your group blog… for free. Participation inequality is a well-known problem, both offline and online. It is impossible to solve this problem —unless you can pay people to write.
