Philologist

Six months ago, one of my favorite web2 SEO content writing clients, LiveXP, closed its operations, and my lovely content manager was laid off. The 72 articles I wrote for them in the course of three and a half years are now gone. I shared language learning tips, made grammar rules accessible, wrote about the impact of language learning on the brain, and encouraged their readership to learn and grow (and to use the services of their language learning tutors, which was the point at the time). ...

Paragraph reminds me of the early 2000s blogs. There’s not much noise over here. People write their posts themselves, on the topics they care about. That’s at least my impression so far.

An average reader reads for an experience. It’s all about identifying with the characters, enjoying the plot’s twists and turns, making moral judgments, and emotionally investing in the text. That’s a passive, unconscious process, guided by the author’s intentions and your natural impulses. Expert reading is different. As a competent reader, you know what you’re doing while reading. You need to deconstruct and demystify the content, identify literary devices and techniques, and expose the inten

I just realized that I don’t want to write SEO content for traditional SaaS ever again.

If a book, article, or social media post is modeled on countless others, following a strict formula because that’s what the market wants, does it really matter whether a human typed it or AI generated it?