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I follow him occasionally on his blog for about a decade, and I'd say that his need to write is greater than his frequency in contributing something insightful. YMMV.

(Of course even more people could say that about me, that is, if they knew me enough to care!)

That said, he used to write some great posts in the past (e.g. https://sivers.org/kimo ), but for the past 5 or more years it's like he just writes because he feels some compulsion to write a post.

He does seem like a nice guy to have beers with though, and he did had an interesting adventure building his startup back in the day. And the podcast is a totally different medium, so all bets are off, he could very good there!

To contrast, I'm not a hardcore fan of PG, but he has been consistently interesting/insightful in his posts even in topics that I don't care about (though he sadly has stopped).



I think being exposed to a wide variety of people is a good thing. Historically I've gotten a bunch of great insights from Sivers but I haven't really read anything by him in years. Similar case for PG.

Reading people like Sivers/PG is great but one shouldn't consider them deities or start taking everything they say as truth. They simply have an unusually good signal-to-noise ratio in their output. Even so, it's not necessarily worth it to stick around for the re-runs.




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