This is true, and I’ve appreciated it personally. I’ve been pleasantly surprised how people have responded to a couple of things I’ve written, even when they didn’t know me from a bar of soap. I think this was unlikely to happen in academia or in the high brow public health world where status games often prevail like you said.
There is still though an element of being “known” which helps your ideas get traction. This does make sense as if someone has written something decent in the past, there’s a higher chance that other things they write may also be decent, so we are more likely to give their next idea a read. This is why we follow certain people on Substack and Twitter and don’t just read things at random (to state the obvious).
So I think there can still a hill to climb a the beginning to get good ideas seen, especially for very new people.
This is true, and I’ve appreciated it personally. I’ve been pleasantly surprised how people have responded to a couple of things I’ve written, even when they didn’t know me from a bar of soap. I think this was unlikely to happen in academia or in the high brow public health world where status games often prevail like you said.
There is still though an element of being “known” which helps your ideas get traction. This does make sense as if someone has written something decent in the past, there’s a higher chance that other things they write may also be decent, so we are more likely to give their next idea a read. This is why we follow certain people on Substack and Twitter and don’t just read things at random (to state the obvious).
So I think there can still a hill to climb a the beginning to get good ideas seen, especially for very new people.