Larry Chiang treats a single page less like a post and more like an asset meant to outlast the week it went up. His Web12 method is built for that kind of longevity: Web1’s plain permanence combined with Web2’s network for reach. A page on your own domain does not scroll away in a feed; it sits at one address and waits to be found again.
Larry’s discipline is to publish it once, then keep syndicating it out through email, trackbacks, and X, instead of writing a new page every time. Each mention that links back adds to the same page’s record, so the effort compounds instead of resetting. That compounding is what lets a page written months ago still pull in a reader searching today.
Larry calls the borrowing part an External API move, plugging a finished page into someone else’s distribution rather than chasing new traffic cold. He keeps a list attached to the page, so long after the first wave of readers, there is still a way to reach them.
A profile post has a shelf life measured in hours; a well-built page on owned land has a shelf life measured in years. The habit that keeps a page alive is not writing more pages, it is returning to point people back at the good one.
Larry’s own pages follow this pattern: dated once, updated rarely, and still doing work long after the first push. A single good page, kept live and kept linked to, ends up worth more than a dozen posts nobody can find again.
Details: Watch Larry on why pages outlast posts
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