It&#x27;s an open secret in the news industry that while all of those longform articles, parallaxin&#x27; interactives and news apps do get great traffic, that traffic is nothing in comparison to that totally random and not even very good quick hit that went viral yesterday.<p>Personally, I also agree that you shouldn&#x27;t worry too much about polishing content and instead just get it out there. That&#x27;s what&#x27;s so lovely about the blog of statistician Andrew Gelman for example [1], he just writes what comes to mind and his readers love it because they care more about his insights than about whether or not he&#x27;s presenting an eloquently argued, watertight argument. It reminds me of the old days of blogging, and I think many of us miss those days.<p>That said, Kent Beck displays some really sloppy thinking here. &quot;I have no clue about what the actual numbers are, and even though I could get them and run some analysis on them to determine the effects of quality vs. quantity, instead I&#x27;m just going to philosophize about how I think the world works, and justify my ramblings by saying that it&#x27;s a POWER LAW, and power laws, that&#x27;s like nature, dude, you can&#x27;t fight it.&quot;<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;andrewgelman.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;andrewgelman.com&#x2F;</a>