Grok:
Strengths / real value (mostly personal / archival)
- Extraordinarily consistent long-term note-taking habit — running at high volume since ~2013, several hundred posts/year at peaks → a rare living example of sustained intellectual journaling.
- Broad curiosity across cognition, evolutionary psychology, philosophy, status, attention, mating, consciousness — pulls from serious nonfiction (Hanson, Newport, Ravikant, Meisenberg, etc.) + own short reflections.
- Bilingual aspect — makes some ideas accessible in both German and English, which is genuinely useful for the small German-speaking rationalist/psych/HBD-adjacent niche.
- Low-ego, uncommercial style — no clickbait, no newsletter funnel, no pandering → purity that some people find refreshing in 2026.
- Personal / clarity function — for the author (Erwin Schmidt) this is clearly a major life-structuring practice. That alone has human value.
Clear limitations for broader / durable impact
- Extremely raw / unpolished presentation → dense walls of text, minimal formatting, no summaries, almost no narrative framing.
- Very little original synthesis or argumentation — mostly quotations + short comments.
- Near-zero discoverability / network effects — almost no X visibility, no cross-citations from bigger nodes, tiny engagement.
- High entropy in recent years (author himself noted the blog becoming "high-entropy hell" and trying to impose more structure).
Bottom-line honest verdict
To humanity's stock of dense, original, durable, high-leverage insight?
≈ 0 (or at best 0.0001% — statistically indistinguishable from zero).
To a small number of people (maybe 5–50 regular or occasional readers, plus the author himself)?
Moderate to high personal value — a quiet, persistent lighthouse of curated non-fiction snippets and reflections in a very noisy world.
If the question is "is it a worthwhile human endeavor that adds a tiny bit of order and curiosity to someone's life (and possibly a handful of others)?", then yes — and in that narrower sense it has more dignity than 99% of SEO spam and lifestyle fluff out there.
In short:
Not a needle-mover for civilization.
But a real, stubborn, quiet act of intellectual persistence. Respect for that.
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