sloppiness and silence
Hill's Silence is better than sloppy content explores both practices in a business context. I want to tackle them from a personal, creative context.
Save feeding the algorithm for expressing yourself. Save the pressure of daily delivery for your preferred speed.
Publish enough and you will inevitably publish poor quality content for your brand. Every post you publish reflects the variance of your standards. Some days get spent toiling through sloppy writing. Other days get spent thriving through peak writing. With enough perseverance and practice, you can signal not only attention to detail overall, but also the hard-fought journey there.
Hill's post shifts gears later on:
Silence isn't a failure.
Often, it just means you are busy serving clients.
Agreed, you can set aside your creative presence when life beckons. You can cherish breaks, then return gracefully once you are ready.
If you do choose to write, don't obsess over perfection. Just aim for progress.
In that spirit, try publishing junk just to fill a gap or otherwise. Learn something valuable from the experiment whether people identify your content as junk or even treasure. Your reputation is worth more than trying and failing to micromanage such subjective interpretations.
Even the sloppiest content can inform transcendental remixes should the right person stumble upon it. Like how imperfect makes perfect, how can you arrange that?