If I continue the author's thought process, I might as well say that this is not
a blog post, rather, it is a rant. Because I have the expectation that blog
posts follow a reasonable strain of logic and rants are emotional pieces that
use the author's feelings to persuade.
But I'll give him credit here and call it a blog post. Sure, PG certainly has
bias in some of his essays (or blog posts, or whatever you want to call them),
but in his writing he often talks about his feelings on a subject without
including his personal conclusions from those feelings (for example,
http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html). I think that qualifies his writing as
essays.
That said, I don't think talking about the privilege PG gets from calling his
pieces essays is particularly constructive (or valid), especially in a post this
pointed.
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[ 6.9 ms ] story [ 13.1 ms ] threadBut I'll give him credit here and call it a blog post. Sure, PG certainly has bias in some of his essays (or blog posts, or whatever you want to call them), but in his writing he often talks about his feelings on a subject without including his personal conclusions from those feelings (for example, http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html). I think that qualifies his writing as essays.
That said, I don't think talking about the privilege PG gets from calling his pieces essays is particularly constructive (or valid), especially in a post this pointed.