Opinionated advice for writing about science

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I’ve been actively writing on this Substack for about 11 months now, and am poking at 4,000 subscribers. It’s a small number in absolute terms, but many of them are people I have looked up to for years and never imagined would even be aware of my existence. It’s been great! I highly recommend starting a blog over your personal interests. Chances are high you make some great friendships out of it too. Over this period, at least a few people have reached out to ask for advice on writing technical pieces, how to do better research for articles, how to be more disciplined, and the like. I don’t like advising people, much less people who I barely know. Mostly because my advice is considered bad by almost everyone who doesn’t know me from the internet. I think I’ve lived a life that’s given me a very ‘spiky’ view of the world, and a fair bit of what I genuinely consider to be true/correct is viewed by most as obviously wrong. Yet, I do usually give advice to people who ask, because being ask

Introduction Some long advice Write for people who actually exist History is often fluff Expressing confusion is interesting Some short advice: Trust (and develop) your own sense of taste Stress is unavoidable at the start Make yourself easy to discover No matter what, someone will be annoyed with you I’ve been actively writing on this Substack for about 11 months now, and am poking at 4,000 subscribers. It’s a small number in absolute terms, but many of them are people I have looked up to for years and never imagined would even be aware of my existence. It’s been great! I highly…

Opinionated advice for writing about science

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