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amit varma blog::There is no problem with amit varma.
He is an excellent fellow, and great fun to hang out with.
What i have been having a problem with is his blog, the eversopopular india uncut.
The thing with these people is that they have one basic idea.
Maybe their hope is that when people read about the same idea several times, they will get convinced and buy the idea.
The concept here is that every time people read about this idea, they would have forgotten that the last time they heard about this was from the same source, and their belief in this idea gets reinforced.
Go back, and look at all the thursday editions of mint between feb07 and feb08.
It may be the case that his mandate in that column was to write about liberty, but this concept has now become big in his normal blogging also, and maybe in all his thoughts.
A few weeks ago, i wrote to a mailing list that amit and i are both part of saying that i was planning to write an economic travelogue.
What i am cribbing about is the content.
And the danger is that the marginal value of looking at his posts might soon turn negative, which will result in my unsubscribing from his blog.
I know that amit is really good about writing about liberty.
He even won a bastiat for that.
His essays might make a big impact for a new reader, but they do little to please existing ones.
This is like a business that spends so much of its energy in acquiring new customers that it ends up pissing off the existing customers.
Such a business model is never going to be sustainable.