About Eleanor Konik
Things That Matter
My rule of thumb when writing articles is that an article should save me time, not cost it; in the age of LLMs, I have no interest in writing regularly just for the sake of ‘being a writer. ’ I write for two primary purposes:
because putting ideas into words helps clarify my thoughts for myself, and the results of that process sometimes seem valuable for other people
because sometimes I say the same thing over and over, and having a public collection of related thoughts makes it easier to avoid repeating myself when someone different asks me questions about a topic.
Less often, I write to vent my spleen when I am annoyed, which sometimes results in my most popular posts, for example:
I get annoyed when people malign secondary sources, which are great!
I have strong feelings on the folders vs. tags debate, although I grant that AI has been a game changer.
Priests were the experts of the ancient world, actually.