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So your understanding of evergreen content and my understanding are a little different. I agree, if I covered topics where my advice would get stale, I would prefer to let people know that I have updated the advice recently so that it was not stale. I just disagree that writing pieces which are capable of getting stale is a good use of my time, since I am time- and resource-constrained.
Writing anything which could go stale is time debt for the future, since I will have to rewrite later, which is extra work for rather little marginal benefit. Worse, it means I'll have to periodically review and rethink everything I've ever published to see whether it needs updating, which is extra work with no benefit that gets progressively more expensive over time as I grow my little content forest.
I think there are virtually infinite topics in investing which are truly evergreen, where you could let the article sit for a hundred years and never need to touch it again. "What is a preferred stock?" is one. "Should I invest in mutual funds managed by a human being?" is another, though that is more controversial. (cough No. cough)
The US was unusually stable, as countries in history go, over the previous 100 years. Even so, the nature of the stock market, the kinds of things traded in it, and the regulations pertaining to them, have changed fairly significantly since 1910. I believe a preferred share is still more or less the same thing now that it was then, but that they're used for fairly different things.
In any case, you should leave the judgment of whether your writing is still worth reading when it's ten, thirty, or a hundred years old to your readers, rather than trying to make the judgment yourself.
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So your understanding of evergreen content and my understanding are a little different. I agree, if I covered topics where my advice would get stale, I would prefer to let people know that I have updated the advice recently so that it was not stale. I just disagree that writing pieces which are capable of getting stale is a good use of my time, since I am time- and resource-constrained.
Writing anything which could go stale is time debt for the future, since I will have to rewrite later, which is extra work for rather little marginal benefit. Worse, it means I'll have to periodically review and rethink everything I've ever published to see whether it needs updating, which is extra work with no benefit that gets progressively more expensive over time as I grow my little content forest.
I think there are virtually infinite topics in investing which are truly evergreen, where you could let the article sit for a hundred years and never need to touch it again. "What is a preferred stock?" is one. "Should I invest in mutual funds managed by a human being?" is another, though that is more controversial. (cough No. cough)
So anyhow, plant evergreens.