A major benefit of working in public is that it invites immediate feedback (hopefully positive, constructive criticism) from anyone who might be reading it including pre-built audiences, whether this is through social media or in a classroom setting utilizing discussion or social annotation methods.

This feedback along the way may help to further find flaws in arguments, additional examples of patterns, or links to ideas one may not have considered by themselves.

Sadly, depending on your reader's context and understanding of your work, there are the attendant dangers of context collapse which may provide or elicit the wrong sorts of feedback, not to mention general abuse.

Holmes, N. P. (2021). I critiqued my past papers on social media—Here’s what I learnt. Nature, 595(7867), 333–333. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01879-y

Covid: India tells social media firms to remove ‘India variant’ from content. (2021, May 22). BBC News. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-57213046

A reasonable summary list of alternatives. Note how dreadful and unmemorable most of these names are. Most noticeable in this list is that I don't think that anyone actually built any actual tools that accomplish any of these theoretical things.

It also makes more noticeable that the Center for Humane Technology seems to be theoretically arguing against something instead of "for" something.

Greene, G. (1999). The Woman who Knew Too Much: Alice Stewart and the Secrets of Radiation. University of Michigan Press.

This is hysterical. I love how Betteredge takes obtuse passages of Crusoe as gospel--full of premonitions, and spiritual wisdom. Betteredge's Christianess may be questionable, but certainly not his Crusoeness. I love Collins use of pop culture in critiquing popular modes of religious thinking.

So much of the sexism portrayed by the narrators seems so on the nose, and inverted by the actions of the women in the novel. Rachel is strong, assertive, and segacious. Lady Verinder, kept her agency, and did not bend under the scrutiny of Mr. Cuff, Penelope was right about Rachel's feelings for Franklin, whereas Betteredge was none the wiser. And Rosanna, though tragically, also maintained her agency. I wonder if this was Collins's intent, is he making a critique?

It's rewarding to see the Indians use the characters own Orientalism as a trap. Especially in the midst of what is possibly the most racist bit of narration yet. I wonder if Collins meant this as a sly critique of Orientalism, I also wonder if the frequent use of 'Christian' in place of kind, or decent (or good, etc.), wasn't so on the nose, as to be satirical. Especially, in a story, which by it's very nature, makes us curious to the true nature of its characters.

Campbell, L. (2020, July 4). No 10 faces ridicule after tweeting incorrect lockdown rules. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/04/no-10-faces-ridicule-after-tweeting-incorrect-lockdown-rules

simine vazire on Twitter: “At the risk of piling on (tho the paper’s been dowloaded > 8k times, so continued critical examination is called for, right?), here’s one of the reasons I’m worried about ‘Using social & behavioural science to support COVID-19 pandemic response’ (https://t.co/0ZthdaCDHK) 1/n” / Twitter. (n.d.). Twitter. Retrieved June 10, 2020, from https://twitter.com/siminevazire/status/1260413236861493248

Retrieved June 10, 2020 from https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/05/12/2-perspectives-on-the-relevance-of-social-science-to-our-current-predicament-1-social-scientists-should-back-off-or-2-social-science-has-a-lot-to-offer/

It struck me as a beautiful idyll when I read Brave New World. At the time, I was probably in my late teens, a sex child at his peak.

This sounds a lot like current complaints of the interwebs, particularly social media. Everyone's a critic!

Wow. This is the most interesting statement that I've read in a while. Wish I could pin an annotation...

Really helps me justify my career arc, turning from literary criticism as a career to software "development."