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The difficulty with tech blogging in general, is that even the best produce at most one genuinely great, authentic piece per year.

So, if you want to be posting regularly, there is no choice but to recycle other people's insights, or produce less well-researched pieces, or to just repeat yourself a lot.

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Recycling insight is one thing, but I was referring to the sense that a lot of the content feels like “reporting on reporting”. That is, an article telling me that The Information posted an article that said something.

The quotes are always properly attributed with links, but given that the original content is behind a different subscription I feel slightly sleazy for subscribing to a newsletter that basically summarizes and quotes from a different paid newsletter as a primary source. (I also subscribe to The Information, FWIW)

Just want to push back on the note that my newsletter "basically summarizes and quotes from a different paid newsletter as a primary source".

The last issue had the most number of The Information quotes [1] plus a bunch of original reporting and opinions.

The one two weeks ago had one such quote [2] and a bunch of original reporting.

I hadn't quoted The Information three months before, the last time I mentioned anything from that source was late April [3].

All linked issues are un-paywalled.

Point taken though on quoting from other publications and the perception a few such quotes can create in a paid publication, not to mention when these external quotes are how an issue starts. And especially when burying original or "exclusive" reporting from original sources.

I'm learning the ropes on this one as I go and will iterate on the format and the notion of "reporting on reporting".

[1] https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/e0cb6dd3-0527-421...

[2] https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/fff15093-0d83-41d...

[3] https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/1d8672a5-a2ab-48e...

I appreciate the links and sources, I’m not sure what OP’s problem is. I have a feeling they prefer opinion pieces, instead of insights into reported news.

I think Gergely's ambition is to be more than just a news outlet.

> The difficulty with tech blogging in general, is that even the best produce at most one genuinely great, authentic piece per year.

Au contraire, the limit as I can see it is more like once per month.

There's unique authentic content and then there is expanding what is already known with a voice. Something that I refer to when I reflect on this is https://xkcd.com/1053/

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