On publishing less

Publishing more is easy to measure. Publishing better is not. Most calendars optimize for the first metric because dashboards hate ambiguity.

The hidden tax

Every public post creates a maintenance debt: corrections, context that ages, replies you feel obliged to answer. Volume multiplies that tax.

A different cadence

• Write often in private (or temporary) spaces
• Publish when a piece has one clear claim
• Let gaps be part of the signal — silence means the bar is real

What “less” is not

It is not perfectionism. Ship when the argument is done, not when the adjectives are exhausted. Less is about selection, not endless polish.

Practice

For the next month: one public piece, unlimited temporary notes. See whether the public one gets better simply because everything else had somewhere else to go.