The 3rd Annual Blog Post Competition, Extravaganza, and Jamboree

photo cred: my dadIt’s time for the annual Experimental History Blog Competition, Extravaganza, and Jamboree! Send me your best unpublished blog post, and if I pick yours, I’ll send you real cash money and tell everybody how great you are.You can see last year’s winners and honorable mentions here. They included: a self-experiment on lactose intolerance, a story about working as a 10-year-old bartender, a takedown of randomized-controlled trials, and an economic explainer of college sports. The authors were software engineers, pseudonymous weirdos, academics, professional behavior-changers, freelancers, moms, and straight up randos and normies. That’s the whole point of blogging—you can be anyone, and you can write about anything.If you’re looking for some inspiration, here are some triumphs of the form:Book Reviews: On the Natural Faculties, The Gossip Trap, Progress and Poverty, all of The Psmith’s BookshelfDeep Dives: Dynomight on air quality and air purifiers, Higher than the…