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title: '**Reader personas**'
description: >-
  **Reader personas** are short profiles of the kinds of people you are writing
  for — their background, needs, and motivations — used to guide what you
  publish and how you present it. In this channel's material, they come up as
  part of thinking through an audience before and while writing, especially as
  AI editing tools change how writers work[^8d8a5d27@0].
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  https://liquidgold.cc/channel/everyinc/explore/term/reader-personas-ba105a94a579
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  https://liquidgold.cc/channel/everyinc/explore/term/reader-personas-ba105a94a579.md
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updated: '2026-10-23T22:12:35.346Z'
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# \*\*Reader personas\*\*

Canonical: https://liquidgold.cc/channel/everyinc/explore/term/reader-personas-ba105a94a579

Parent: [Channel index](https://liquidgold.cc/channel/everyinc/llms.txt)

## Definition

**Reader personas** are short profiles of the kinds of people you are writing for — their background, needs, and motivations — used to guide what you publish and how you present it. In this channel's material, they come up as part of thinking through an audience before and while writing, especially as AI editing tools change how writers work[^8d8a5d27@0].

In this channel's captured material, **reader personas** appears in the context of a conversation about writing and publishing: Nat Eliason reflects on how AI tools are reshaping the way writers think about their audience, not by generating text for them, but by helping writers edit and understand what they put in front of readers[^8d8a5d27@0]. The channel's discussion pairs this with Eliason's experience teaching AI skills — a course that made **$200,000 in pre-sales in one week** — where understanding who the audience is and what they want was central to the result[^8d8a5d27@0].