There are some good comments here that get at the false dilemma. The observation that your blog posts will fall on a power law curve is only valuable <i>a posteriori. After</i> writing a blog post, if it doesn&#x27;t do well you can chalk it up to power law.<p><i>A priori</i> (meaning at the moment you sit down to write your next blog post), it&#x27;s entirely useless, and maybe detrimental. At this moment it&#x27;s more like the 10,000 hours of practice theory. It&#x27;s not 10,000 hours of random application that will get you success. It&#x27;s 10,000 hours of deliberate practice, directed skill-building behavior directed towards marginal improvements.<p>Will your portfolio of blog posts live on a power law curve? Yes. Does that mean you don&#x27;t have to put any effort in? No. What it means is do your best every time, but don&#x27;t expect success every time.<p>In a basement laboratory somewhere there are 1,000 monkeys typing (and generating a power law curve) and after a few centuries they still haven&#x27;t written any Shakespeare.<p>Locally your own oeuvre will follow a power law. Globally your work, when compared to the work of others, will follow a power law. It&#x27;s fractal in that way. However, if your work is shit it&#x27;s still going to be hard to break through.<p>Side note, what OP doesn&#x27;t realize about blue pill-red pill is that red pill is based entirely on a priori principles while blue pill is the opposite.