Tag: frameworks
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Recently, I thought of writing about all the good things that came out of my decade-plus career working with Search Engine Optimization (SEO.) I often focus on the ill effects when I write about it today, but there are things, especially when it comes to hyper-local and long tail keyword research that are helpful in…
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Along with Gemini, I’ve been developing the Words Above Average metric as an intellectual hygiene filter for online content. We’ve used calculations of lexical density, synthesis score, structural entropy, and durability multiplier, looking for evergreen intellectually stimulating nonfiction content. But I’ve also wanted to create a WAA metric for fiction. How would we adapt the…
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Currently, Arts & Letters Daily set the Gold Standard for the Words Above Average metric, providing us with a “meta-aggregator,” like a radar scanning the current horizon to find the highest-entropy ideas, a superior “Intellectual Hygiene” filter for the present moment. But I wanted to go a bit further and find several more aggregators and…
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Back in 2021, while reading lots of books about sabermetrics, using statistics in baseball to find hidden value, I came up with this wild idea of a metric called Words Above Replacement. It’s inspired by the WAA (Wins Above Average) metric in baseball statistics. The idea I had was to find some way to figure…
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When I first began to develop the framework for what would eventually become the CRAP framework, it was because I felt the language I was using to discuss ideas was broken somehow. I needed a better vocabulary with which to define and expand on my own disillusionment with institutional education and intellectual life. I’ve long…
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The ABCD critique framework is an extremely useful tool for feedback, and is one I use for my critiques of both my own and others’ work all the time. I learned about it through a Sublime App interview with Substack writer Anu Atluru, but the ABCD framework origin seems to be the blog of Cassidy…