{"id":3965,"date":"2017-09-05T13:57:19","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T04:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/?p=3965"},"modified":"2017-09-05T14:10:17","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T05:10:17","slug":"writers-bias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/writers-bias\/","title":{"rendered":"Writers Bias"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Sowell is better at describing this than I but there are people who love writing for writing&#8217;s sake. Or Nassim Taleb&#8217;s &#8220;Intellectual Yet Idiots&#8221; is another way to say it. They feel a need to foist their opinions on us but no obligation to have responsibility for those beliefs.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ERj3QeGw9Ok?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I do like reading good stuff so writers are necessary. What I appreciate are people who produce and then write. The writing is the cart not the horse. Or I am saying if the writing comes first it doesn&#8217;t go far. For example I love the musings of a certain former software CEO who learned from life and then shared those lessons.<\/p>\n<p>How does one get people with great ideas to write more and people with loose typewriter movements to write less?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"pld-like-dislike-wrap pld-template-1\">\r\n    <div class=\"pld-like-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-like-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"3965\" data-trigger-type=\"like\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-up\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-like-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\">    <\/span>\r\n<\/div><div class=\"pld-dislike-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-dislike-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"3965\" data-trigger-type=\"dislike\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-down\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-dislike-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\"><\/span>\r\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Sowell is better at describing this than I but there are people who love writing for writing&#8217;s sake. Or Nassim Taleb&#8217;s &#8220;Intellectual Yet Idiots&#8221; is another way to say it. They feel a need to foist their opinions on us but no obligation to have responsibility for those beliefs.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>I do like reading good stuff so writers are necessary. What I appreciate are people who produce and then write. The writing is the cart not the horse. Or I am saying if the writing comes first it doesn&#8217;t go far. For example I love the musings of a certain former software CEO who learned from life and then shared those lessons.<\/p>\n<p>How does one get people with great ideas to write more and people with loose &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/writers-bias\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[172],"class_list":["post-3965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5805"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3965"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3968,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3965\/revisions\/3968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}