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On being a pundit

Discover how to be a blogger by focusing on precision, accuracy, and novelty in your content creation.

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Back the summer of 2002 I recall a friend of mine telling me, "so you're a pundit now!" I'd been blogging for a few months, and I didn't feel like a pundit, whatever that meant. ~10 years on I guess I am a pundit. In that vein I was discussing with a friend what it took "to be a blogger" (they wanted to get into the game). First, blogger is a rather expansive category. I have no idea what one would need to do to be a food blogger beyond any old person off the street. But I do know how to be what I am. I focus on three things: * Precision * Accuracy * Novelty And exactly in that order. It's of the essence you say what you mean to say. Confusions will still occur, but you can mitigate it by trying to be precise. Accuracy is important, ...

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