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When I post on LW, I think the impact is something like:
- 20% informing people who browse LW
- 30% informing people who are linked to a post (by me or others), or for whom it's overdetermined that they'll read the post
- 20% people who read the posts helping me: they leave helpful comments or talk to me or [share docs with me / ask to collaborate with me / think of me when working on something related in the future]
- 30% giving me status or something, and causing people to [think of / respect] me in certain domains
3 and 4 overlap. In the last week there were two times a person/org asked me to help them with something that I was very excited to help with, and at least one of them was downstream of my recent posting.
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