Written by a human, for humans, always.
The truth is...
I hate short-form content.
Now, that does not mean I do not engage in it.
In today's business and entrepreneurial world, short-form content is the easiest way to attract people to your work.
It is not the only way...
Surely it is not the most effective way...
But it is the easiest, and one of the mediums which people tend to look at to determine whether you are legitimate.
Lack of any social presence appears sketchy...
And what your social presence shows often is correlated with your character.
(Whether it is a fair assessment is a different story.)
Even if this happens to be true...
I really do not like short-form content.
There are several problems that I tend to find in short-form content...
Which you should be wary of...
Especially if you seek to become a better leader, build a business, have a desire to improve the world, or reach Sageship.
For instance...
Short-form content tends to be filled with junk-food motivation.
It sounds good...
It speaks some sort of truth...
But really, it doesn't provide anything substantial.
It creates the "illusion" of something important...
While failing to provide anything that can be used in reality.
Even short-form posts that are lists of "what to do"...
Are often so vague that they do not actually help you "do" what the list is designed for.
To actually understand different terms...
Subtleties within those different steps...
Or to troubleshoot inevitable problems...
You need significantly more information than any short-form could ever hope to provide.
In a single post...
You "might" have enough space to make a singular statement about a singular topic within a singular specific context.
But every real-world problem will have multiple contexts, covering interconnected topics, that require different statements based on all of these different factors.
That is reality.
You just do not have enough room in short-form content to say anything with depth...
It is all shallow.
Which brings us to the next problem...
Napoleon Complexes.
There are two sides to this.
There is the first side where people with little to nothing to say in reality...
Attempt to try to "prove" they know more than they really do...
By "only" focusing on short-form content.
They attempt to dominate the short-form scene through peacocking and saying pseudophilosophical things...
That really has no deep substance...
And they do this because these individuals only have thoughts that are as deep as the short-form content they create.
They sprint to short-form because they do not actually have the capacity to write anything meaningful in longer formats...
And it becomes disgustingly clear when they attempt it...
Which is why they retreat back to short-form...
Hoping that others will never actually seek more deeply.
But...
Eventually, people do...
Because real problems require real depth of understanding...
Which these individuals cannot provide.
But then we have the second side of the problem...
People who are trying to prove they know something...
Usually by attacking other people's short-form content.
Often, this comes with a tone of something to the effect of...
"Well, clearly you did not think about this other perspective..."
Or...
"This really doesn't provide anything meaningful..."
But this is the problem that this flavor of Napoleon Complex fails to understand...
Short-form is inherently restricted!
Of course, there are other perspectives that are missing...
And deeper meanings that elude the specific post they are targeting!
It is short-form content!
So, even though these individuals "believe" they are doing something meaningful in how they go about this...
All they really are doing is grasping at the lowest-hanging fruit on the least useful type of content.
They make hyper-specific, "Yeah, but..." statements to create the illusion that they know more...
While often refusing to engage with longer-form content...
Not to mention they usually are not even creating anything themselves...
Just attempting to tear down things others create.
So what ends up happening...
Is that you have both of these sides of the problem...
Creating and arguing against each other...
Each trying to one-up each other, prove they know something, and tear each other down...
While failing to do...
Anything.
It becomes a cesspool of meaningless content.
If your goal in life is to actually improve in life and accomplish something meaningful...
Get off the short-form content.
Most of it is meaningless anyways.
If the people you are following have no long-form content...
There is probably a reason.
You do not get any value from paying attention to and engaging in pointless ego clashes with people who are currently failing to produce anything of value.
(Some people try to rely on their old reputations when engaging in this context, but in life there is growth and decay. Many people have been in years- and even decades-long decays, trying to use an old identity to carry them through. The reality is that they are not producing anything of value currently and are spiraling in decay, trying to prove, ineffectively, that they are still useful while failing to do anything to improve themselves.)
The easiest way to find new content may be to start with short-form content...
But stay there for as little time as is required.
Look for whether people have the capacity to create long-form content...
Or engage in meaningful conversations within a more nuanced context.
These are the types of individuals who may have something useful to provide for your growth.
Not always, but it is vastly more likely.
It is easy to make something sound good and punchy or philosophical in short-form...
But it becomes painfully easy to tell who is an imposter and pretender when you start to look at long-form content.
The more quality long-form pieces of content someone has...
The more likely they are to provide something valuable.
The wider variety of long-form pieces someone can create successfully...
The more likely they are a deeper thinker capable of applying their expertise, and potentially Sageship, to more topics.
If you want to actually grow and cultivate yourself...
Pay attention to the type of content that you are taking in...
And whether it actually provides you with any substance in your life.
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