Take it from a very expensive copywriter: you cannot write a quality blog post in 1 hour.
Consider the content of this post:
1. research
2. draft
3. edit
...revolutionary. Maybe there's a reason why Baremetrics writers aren't in the New Yorker ;)
Consider the content of this post:
1. research
2. draft
3. edit
...revolutionary. Maybe there's a reason why Baremetrics writers aren't in the New Yorker ;)
I write most of our posts in ~1 hour and hot dog, here we are on HN and you're reading it. :)
Side note - getting on HN and "you read the thing" aren't markers of high quality.
Unless you're in the business of generating blog post views or HN comments the fact that people are discussing it here is irrelevant. Those things are vanity metrics. They don't matter to your business. Your post could get 10,000 upvotes and a million comments, but if you don't get a sale from all that extra "brand awareness" you've still wasted an hour of your time.
The person who wrote the article though has an ego and people reading, reacting, responding to the article all feed the ego. Vanity metrics are the only reason we do things after the base instincts
I'm assuming these 1-hour blog posts do move their metrics in a meaningful way and the HN thing was just banter.
Also, the term "quality" is highly dependant on context. I wouldn't compare it to "The New Yorker," but rather other similar companies' blog posts.
Edit: The parent comment originally said something along the lines of "...there's a reason you don't see anyone from Baremetrics in The New Yorker."
Edit: Now the New Yorker comment is back.
Now imagine if you're not a New Yorker-calibre writer!
(I'm a pretty snobby reader and still like the occasional techie-founder post. You don't have to be a copywriting wizard to write something substantive, but it isn't enough to just commit text to the page. You can tell when someone has thought deeply and laboured over a piece of writing. The idea that you can write something worthy of other people's time in one hour is cut-and-dry clickbait.)
But a blog post you'd hire a very expensive copywriter for and a blog post like the ones discussed in the article are quite different.
That doesn't mean the latter aren't quality blog posts.
Like another comment said, it depends on your audience (and, I'd add, more importantly, the purpose of the post).
That's a good thing. They want as many people to read as possible, and most of their audience will not have the patience to read a New Yorker piece.