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Simon Willison
@simonwillison.net

(To be fair here, I produce such a high volume of content that it's understandable when people evaluate my work based on a single post without taking the breadth of my coverage into account)

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Juraj
@aksuno.bsky.social

I have to ask as I was wondering about it for a while - how do you manage to produce so much content? Like seriously. I would love to read a post about how you approach and research what’s new, what tool you made and use daily to consume all your feeds and sources. - 1/2

Simon Willison
@simonwillison.net

Not having a full time employer helps! It's that and practice: I've been writing online for 20+ years now, so I can knock out a small piece (a link blog entry) in 5-15 minutes and most of my longer form stuff takes 1-2 hours

Simon Willison
@simonwillison.net

My review post of 2024 was an outlier, I didn't measure but I would guess that was at least four hours of writing and another accumulated two hours of jotting down notes for it over the previous few weeks

Simon Willison
@simonwillison.net

Oh, I forgot to mention: lower your standards! Waiting until a piece feels as good as you can get it is a recipe for an empty blog and a huge folder full of drafts I try to hit publish while I am still unhappy with what I've written