Willison's Number One Blogging Tip: 'Lower Your Standards — Hit Publish While You Are Still Actively Unhappy With What You Have Written'
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In an August 6 interview with Cynthia Dunlop, Willison gave his single piece of advice for technical blogging: aim to publish while still actively dissatisfied with the draft. Coming from someone who has posted near-daily for two decades and whose blog is now a primary source for the AI tooling beat, it is a throughput argument — the compounding value comes from volume and searchability, not from any individual post clearing a quality bar.